19 children are now members of a vigilante group that has been battling drug gangs in western Mexico.
In a lawless stretch of western Mexico, children as young as 6 years old are taking up arms against organized crime.
“They must be prepared,” said Bernardino Sanchez Luna, the founder of the vigilante group known as the CRAC-PF. “If they are afraid, the criminals will kill them like little chickens.”Two of the children who were trained were 6 years- old, he said. The oldest members of the group were 15.have emerged in Guerrero. They say they are defending themselves from local criminal gangs that control drug smuggling routes and extort businesses in the region.
After the musicians were killed, local residents reacted angrily, blocking roads and demanding that government authorities intervene. They were particularly upset about the death of the youngest band member, who was 15 years old, Sanchez said.Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was elected in 2018 on a platform that he said would combat crime by giving poor Mexicans better economic opportunities.
“I insist, we’re going to move forward,” he said at his daily news conference on Thursday. “We have to give options to children, to young people, to keep them away from weapons, keep them away from the violence, and that’s what’s being done.” “They say we’re violating the children’s rights,” Sanchez said. “But it’s the criminals who are doing that.”Before the induction ceremony this week, he and other vigilante leaders spoke to the youths.
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