Mexico: Meet Mexico's Child Assassins - The New Yorker - International Initiative to End Child Labor

Mexico: Meet Mexico’s Child Assassins – The New Yorker

By Umbrellus LLC

Posted July 28, 2011

In Child Labor News, child soldiers, Engaging children in illegal activities, Illegal Activities

While there are efforts to aid child soldiers and slaves in conflicts around the world, the Mexican drug insurgency’s effects on children have been largely ignored. At least thirty thousand minors have been recruited by cartels, which promise quick and …
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