One day after a vigilante group reveals it was using children as young as eight as “recruits” for armed defense patrols, Mexico's president says drug cartels too are recruiting every-younger kids.
FILE - In this Nov. 29, 2019 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador listens to questions during his daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City.
The whole issue has sparked a debate in Mexico over the use of children in armed confrontations, with rights groups saying the practice threatens not only kids’ safety, but their mental health. López Obrador said “the key is to attack the root causes, to stop the breakdown of families, to strengthen values and material welfare, to give attention to young people” to avoid them being recruited.
They performed rifle drills on a road in the township of Alcozacán in southern Guerrero state. In a nearby town, a local drug gang had killed 10 men and burned most of their bodies, and vigilante organizers said the kids were needed to guard their villages against the drug gang. But the prison and youth advocacy group Reinserta Un Mexicano A.C. said the Guerrero state government’s position is irresponsible because authorities there “have been systematically negligent in guaranteeing minimal conditions of welfare for these communities and in defending the rights of children” in the conflict-torn area.
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