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March 29, 2013 10:51 am PDT
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How children become "cannon fodder" for Mexican drug cartels
Wired's Danger Room blog points to this new report [PDF] by the NGO International Crisis Group, which details how Mexican drug cartels recruit and coerce kids as young as 11 years old to kill. Narcos have recruited thousands of street gang members, school drop-outs and unskilled workers over the last decade, and the report claims [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gvm-jCIbOxk/story01.htm
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