Sol joined the drug at the drug a few months ago, recruited by someone he knew while he sold the roses on the sidewalk outside a local bar. He began as a watch, but grew immediately.
The cartel wants his childhood enthusiasm to learn new skills, his poor loyalty, and maybe more important he is protected from severe punishment when police get him.
“I follow the boss,” Sol, now 20, tells the reuters, saying from the rehabilitation center of Central Mexico where he intends to raise his life together. “I thought they loved me.”
Sol refused to tell how much he killed his cartel time. He said he was addicted to methamphetamine from the age of nine. When he was 16 he was arrested for kidnapping – he was only criminal conviction – and took three years in the child’s dismissal, according to his lawyer.
Reuters hold the whole name of Sol, and the names of the town where he works and the cartel he belongs to, to protect him. The news agency has never confirmed the Sol account details, even if the center psychologists and his lawyer said it was accurate. Security experts say that children are like Sol is a partner of a deliberate strategy to organize Mexican crime groups to recruit their famine in their hunger and camaraderie. In Cartel Slang they are known as ‘Pollitos de Colores’ or ‘Color Chicks,’ After Fluffy Baby Chicks sprayed with the haxic colors. They are cheap, burning the light, and don’t live a long life.
Reuters talk to 10 today and six child murderers, as well as four senior cartels operatives, saying that cartels are increasing and observing young people.
Their experiences revealed the growing violence of the Mexican Society and the failure of President Claudia Seinbaum and previous governments to answer not only the increased influence of the territory of cartels but their many cultures.
The Mexican and Interior Ministry Presidency does not respond to requests for comment.
The news agency contacted the active cartel members via Facebook and tick. Many shares pictures of their own holding rifles, have a cap with a cartoon chicken with automatic rounds – a reference to ‘colored chicks.’ They are between 14 and 17.
Mostly said they were recruited by relatives or friends, which included the main desire to belong to something. They usually come from houses broken by violence and drugs. Many have already struggled with addiction to drugs such as cocaine or methamphetamine.
“You joined your death penalty signed,” said a 14-year-old killing child working for a cartel in eight months, asking not to recognize themselves. “But it deserves,” they said. Now they’re no longer hungry and have family feelings.
Failed policies
Although 15 security experts and those within cartels say that baby recruitment increases, a lack of difficult data that is difficult to track the issue.
The Bureau of International Labor Affairs in the US government has 30,000 children participated in Mexican criminal groups. Adbokasya groups say the number of weak children can be easily recruited as high as 200,000. It is unclear how these numbers change for hours, even if experts say that the baby’s recruits are growing.
A Mexican government report on Cartel Recruitment of children published last year that minors used to involve organized crime and social media, to remove young recruits.
The report says 70% of teenagers pulled by cartels surrounded by high levels of extreme violence.
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Mexican National Guard has since been issued instructions to the safe use of video games, while a legislature proposal before arranging crime crime, TV, and video games.
“We see more criminal groups separating children who are younger,” a director of the reinstet, a group of adbokasya is targeted by children who are victims of organized crime. He said this trend has grown by the use of new technologies such as video games with joint chatting systems.
In the rehabilitation center in Central Mexico, another child killed the child, Isabel, 19, treated with extreme trauma and he said he had 20 years old.
He took his pregnant but he failed, he thought for his heavy drug use.
Reuters did not prevent all Isabel’s account, but his arrest as an unknown member of the cartel cartel published in news reports.
Isabel has tattoos removed by his uncle’s name, but still carried a stencil to his innocent silhouette.
‘Children’ Children
While young children can be useful for more simple tasks, such as delivering messages or work as the look-outs, their loyalty and muddy can easily make them an asset. They are only cheap and easy to replacement. By the time they were eight years of age, they always conducted a gun and killed, a member of the cartel said.
There are some resemblance to soldiers who fight places like Sudan and Syria, but Mexican cartels are different from their state of profit. Children killing cases also emerged in other places, including Sweden.
“These children can be used, it can be used … but in the end, all they expect is death,” said Gabriela Ruiz, a specialist in the National Autonomous University of Youth.
In 2021, the Commission Commission Inter-Americans called Mexico to prevent the compulsory recruitment of guerrero minor leading to the defense groups.
Despite a government study under former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, and now under Social Goots, the 15 experts who have been developing drugs and the 15 experts who speak of drugs and the 15 experts saying the reuters said. There are no specific government programs addressed to save children who have recruited, they added.
A problem is a lack of clear criminal law that prohibits recruiting minors in organized crime. Another is the wider problem with Mexican child’s work.
In 2022, the most recent official data available, 3.7 million children ages between 5 and 17 have already worked, about 13% of the total Mexican group. By law, Mexican children can work from the age of 15 if they meet certain behaviors, including signed agree with parents.
Faint from death
Daniel was 16 to participate in a cartel in a state of the Pacific Coast in Mexico in 2021. The group turned away from the children that he and forced children to join the gun.
In the next three years Daniel works for the cartel – starting with a watch, to be an enforcer of collecting Cartel protection. Many of his friends were killed by the opposites of opponents, killed by his own cartel – killed to set an example, because they refused to follow the orders or because they refused to follow the rent.
In November, he fled to Cartel – leaving his three-year-old son – and escaped the North Cbactive Proftive Proftive Proftive Profit. The program was broken when Trump took office.
He is now hiding near the border. Fear of his life and more fear of his ancient cartel coming after his partner and son. He saves to pay a smuggler to get him in the United States.
“I have no choice, I’m afraid to die,” he told the reuters in the migrant shelter where he stayed.
For Sol, his focus is to start his life in Mexico. He studied for a law degree and wanted to build a career and steady life away from the death and violence he made and suffered as a child.
He hopes to specialize in juvenile law and serve as a teacher for young children who are tempted by a crime life.
“I never thought I would do it by 20, I always thought I was to die,” he said, battling tears.
