Cartels recruit children and adolescents for TikTok and Fortnite, reveals report of the Segob

The forced recruitment of children and adolescents (NNA) by drug cartels is a reality in Mexico. Today, organized crime groups use digital platforms such as social networks, video games and messaging apps to capture minors and add them to their ranks. This was revealed by a report by the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), entitled ‘Strategic Mechanism for the Recruitment and Use of Children by Criminal Groups’, in which it details how criminal gr…

The coordinator of Tejiendo Redes Infancia en América Latina y el Caribe, Juan Martín Pérez, pointed out that the Segob report was developed in 2021 and published on the 'web' in 2023, which he indicated was not officially presented, although there were targeted deliveries to the media from the Gobernación and the SSC that were published in 2023 and 2024. Pérez added that this document is part of the advocacy process that they achieved with two …