By "El Huaso" for Borderland Beat
Videos have surfaced showing students posing as narcos and making joke threats towards other students at a high school in Valparaiso, Zacatecas. The videos are a reference to narco comunicados, violent videos released by organized crime groups in Mexico featuring threats, executions of rivals, and torture. They are a tragic reminder of the effect the hyper violent environment is having on Mexico's youth.
In the video, the students pose with musical instruments as weapons, wear masks, and yell mock threats at students at another high school in the area.
The Violent Context
News site NTR Zacatecas reported that the mayor of Valparaiso, Eleuterio Ramos Leal, lamented the normalization of violence that has affected young people.
According to Mexico's defense ministry, Zacatecas has become violent because of its geographical value to criminal groups, who seek to control it's highways and transportation routes north. Zacatecas ranks 10th by homicide count this year, with 861 deaths, amounting to a homicide rate of 53 per 100,000, according to a government security briefing in September. While these figure are alarmingly high, the homicide rate was actually twice as high the year before, the highest in the nation, at 107 per 100,000.
The conflict is between a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, as reported by Borderland Beat. As the security situation spirals, publicly placed bodies, narco messages, and shootouts have become commonplace. As of March 2022, there were at least 10,000 internally displaced persons in the state, according to Zacatecas senator Geovanna Bañuelos.
Source: NTR Zacatecas, Portal Valparaiso, El Financiero, INEGI Homicide 2021, Regeneracion, SwissInfo, September 20 security briefing
That’s sad. It’s years outside of cartel wars before Mexico will ever get back to normal. What is normal in Mexico anymore ? Kids copying what they see. Horrible how this gets no national news coverage.
ReplyDeletehorrible when kids kill other kids inside school for no other reason than hate. Thats sad and occurs on a regular basis since 90's.
DeleteThis is not new, mock videos have been around for years in YouTube.
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DeleteI blame rap music videos ,social media, race pimps and commu ity activist, spprts athletes
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DeleteCant say nothing,even if truth.You sheep went along with political correctness and hate crime,name calling politicized to errode free speech,it affects everyone,laws imposed without any say so by democracy,democracy my brown arse
I thought everyone does this
ReplyDeleteLooks like my sabrinos cutting up and joking around,.... Getting ready for El Viejo
ReplyDeletePura gente del mencho mock video best one
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ReplyDeleteOh wow, just pathetic.
ReplyDeleteThey should mock an actual cartel and see what happens next.
ReplyDeleteComo mexico no hay dos le duela a quien le duela
ReplyDeleteObvio, TODOS los paises del mundo son unicos, y no se repiten.
DeleteYesterday, I was at the local Dia de Los muertos festival, and some lady had her little Nino in the stroller dressed up like a little narco set for his mug shot with a serial number placard and fake Escobar mustache. Poor kid, never will have a chance.
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