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 "cartel bosses will treat the young killers as cannon fodder, throwing them into suicidal attacks on security forces." [Wired.com]
How children become "cannon fodder" for Mexican drug cartels
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