Those contacted in this way state that the recruiters appeal to their sense of adventure, promising them excitement, action, money and possessions. Islamic terror groups have used this technique for years, with leaks from former National Security Agency NSA operative in revealing how extremists had turned to video games such as World of Warcraft and Second Life. With schools closed, children have been forced to study online but access to learning platforms and monitoring of their activities by parents and teachers has ranged widely.
Despite warnings from a specialized team, pages advertising the CJNG on Facebook and Instagram remained up for up to five months. When they were taken down, new ones soon popped up. A search on Instagram, the day before this article was published, immediately turned up multiple accounts showing young children carrying weapons, wearing military-style gear or singing the praises of criminal groups in Mexico.
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The latest example occurred in late October during a commission of Paraguay's Senate that tackled…. InSight Crime was a proud supporter of this year's Global Investigative Journalism Conference, which took place November 1 through November 5 and convened nearly 2, journalists…. A report presented last week by Reinserta, which works to prevent youths from getting recruited by drug cartels, said kids are frequently recruited by other children their own age.
Reinserta interviewed 89 minors held at youthful offender facilities in several states; 67 of those youths said they had been actively involved with the cartels.
The average age at the time they came in contact with the cartels was between 13 and All of them had dropped out of school and all eventually went on to use firearms.
Combinations of poverty, abusive homes, and unresponsive schools and social agencies play a role. The report found that previous membership in local street gangs no longer appears to play much of a role. Next, the kids are put into cells led by experienced cartel soldiers, who have some prior training with the military or police. One Mexican army lieutenant colonel told the ICG: "We will go on patrol and face an ambush by these young kids who don't even know how to shoot.
And they do know how to shoot. And by attacking the army, they are trying to show the population that they have the power. To strengthen their control in cartel-held towns, the killers are augmented by lookouts, or "hawks.
Their job is to call other cartel members if the military or police are entering an area. At 15, he was convicted of committing multiple murders for the Beltran Leyva Cartel, which he began at age 11, and was sentenced to three years in a juvenile prison due to maximum juvenile sentencing laws -- while the case was flaunted in the Mexican and international press. More recently, accused year-old assassin Adrian Ivan Pizana was arrested on a drug-related murder charge.
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