Poor teenagers in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez say they have carried out murders on behalf of drug cartels for sums as small as 500 pesos ($40), Milenio newspaper said Thursday, citing Mexico’s Social Development Office.The office says the teen assassins are recruited from the dismal shantytowns springing up around Mexico’s murder capital, which lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.
“To go to school, a kid spends about 42 pesos ($3.50) a day on his transportation. Then they decide not to go to class, so they end up as the neither-nors: they neither study nor work,” the office’s deputy director, Raul Ibañez Marquez, told Milenio.
More than 3,000 people have been slain this year in Juarez. Authorities blame the carnage on turf battles between rival drug cartels.
The war has taken such a toll on the cartels that they are now actively recruiting adolescents and even preteens.
Youngsters in the Juarez slums spoke to researchers about carrying out their first contract killing at 13 in exchange for the equivalent of $40.
A 14-year-old boy accused of beheading enemies of the South Pacific cartel was nabbed recently in the central Mexican state of Morelos.
If This is True; that kids 13 and 14 are wacking
ReplyDeletepeople for Chump Change, I mean $40.00 that won't
even fill up my car with gas. If it's really true
then were in for a Real Treat when these punks grow
up to the ripe old age of 21. This means that not
even religion is respected south of the Border! I
mean it takes alot of Balls to "Blow" a person's
head off, after two tours in Nam I know. I still
have nightmares from the s--t I did when I was 18!
being a soldier ..drafted and fighting a war is different than being a greedy little fuckface
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