Killers at 13: Child Victims of Drug Trafficking

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At the age of 17, Rafael already estimates having killed some 200 people in the states of Chihuahua, Sinaloa and Zacatecas. He was only 13 years old when he approached the members of a criminal group in Ciudad Juárez to ask them for work, and they turned him into a hit man. At the same age Darey and Hugo joined the Juarez Cartel, but at different armed arms, in which they were first made narco-menudists and then sent to “lift” and kill people. B…

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“I don’t go to school anymore, because parents have to be supported,” says Yael, a 10-year-old boy who wipes windscreens at the traffic lights of Tuxtla Gutiérrez. Yael’s reality is replicated in some hundreds of thousands of children in Chiapas, according to the National Survey of Child Labour (ENTI) 2022, prepared by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI). The report indicates that in the entity there are 769,600 children a…