RINCON DE CHAUTLA, Mexico - When the 56-year-old mother-in-law of David Sanchez Luna was tortured and killed after venturing out of her small Mexican community encircled by drug cartels, he let his seven- and ten-year-old daughters receive military-style weapons training.
“They do this to prepare themselves to defend the family, their siblings and defend the village,” said Sanchez Luna, a corn farmer in a rugged region which five years ago formed a self-defense “community police” militia to protect itself. Ten musicians from the area were ambushed and killed last month by suspected Los Ardillos cartel members after stepping out of the territory guarded by their self-defense militia, known as CRAC-PF. Their bodies were burnt, officials said.
“This is a public cry for help by a community that’s been cornered,” said Falko Ernst, an International Crisis Group analyst. “They’ve been trying to get assistance by federal and state government, unsuccessfully, so they’re trying to escalate the language to try to negotiate and get help.” Residents remain deeply suspicious of regional authorities and the smattering of local policemen in their villages, who they accuse of being the eyes and ears of the Los Ardillos.
It might be time to remove the cartels if these communities can form together! The down trodden which is who they are could rise and take control back from those who step on them!
Obama and Holder did their part to arm the cartels.
You need to work on the definition of military-style.
POTUS realDonaldTrump should send in the drones strikes on this cartel terrorist thugs who terrorizie their citizens and our citizens .. Take them out just like Soleimani KeepAmericaSafe2020 PeaceThroughStrength
they have no choice, I would have done the same., they can't rely on the government, its rotten to the core.
🤓*confused* So... are weapons in private hands good or bad now? Or does it depend on the country?
Where's the Mexican govt? Nowhere to be found...?
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Build compounds like Israel. Protect your family.
But but USA bad!
Plata O Plomo
terrible idea!👎😱😢
gr8musicvenues I hear vegans are offering steak cooking classes in an effort to combat over farming.
Duh... this may not be a good approach... 'gangs' should be hauled in for compulsory education... they hate education... gangs love ignorance... you can get away with a lot when ignorant
If the police can't/won't protect you...
Did you all hear the story Is only to grab the attention of the government
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This is like a funding your own gang start up, wtf!!!
What could go wrong 🤔?
Time to wake up America! We’re going to be at war with Mexico in 5-10 years. The cartels are just as ruthless as ISIS, but they have the money & military equipment to back it up. Mexico is a failed country.
Yeah, can't see any problem with that plan. What could possible go wrong?
POTUS realDonaldTrump already said, you need an army to defeat an army, Mexican cartels are all over Mexico City, deeply rooted in politics and government, very sad to put children Infront of this mess.
These children will eventually be poached by the narcos.
Not one kid shown had a 'military style' weapon. Liberal hyperbole
There's no gang violence if you are the gang
Build the wall!
Really? So child soldiers are now okay? WTF? 😩
Wow! Mexico starting to look like Middle East!😮😔
Very unfortunate it has come to this. Kids are now protecting their future where adults have failed them, it's just same situation with climate change,where kids are also fighting to protect their future climate. Very unfortunate.
The mockery of the Mexican legislators to the anti-corruption chapter of the USMCA.
That's really suck. You guys, Does the world have a fair?
Let’s throw them in a cage and watch them die - Evangelical “Christians”
Would think Human Rights Watch charity led by Roth would be there on the front lines to help, take note, report on what is going on with children fighting cartels.
The rise of drug trafficking cartels has become a threat to international peace and security!!
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How long will it take for the Mexican government to ask US for help?
Oof get those kids some AR15s
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That’s not true It’s a lie
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The next generation of Sicarios. 😢
Their last line of defense for when the adults are gone. When this went viral the government finally started dispatching the military, but nobody is being arrested so far due to corrupt police. Poor kids man. And the local security guy gets the blame for it even...
Looks like future Californians
get segal in there
Aquí nos interesan otras cosas como el borolas, la rifa del avión, cancelar los puentes y más recientemente “fuchi caca”.
Mexico .. the true last frontier
Let people defend themselves. Making it harder for people to acquire guns for themselves isn't stopping cartels from getting them.
THIS IS JUST A FLAT OUT LIE thats not what this is a picture of at all
poor children !!! Where is Mexican government ? are they fucking prostitutes and forgot work ?
Self defense is the best defense. Sometimes it's the only defense. Maybe these children will grow up able to look out for themselves, the first defense against tyranny. Importing mexican crime to the US helps no one but criminals.
The Amazing Seven revisited
Wth!! They are kids.. Deploy real soldiers
This is serious and Nigeria is heading toward the same direction if the Government don't take decisive action against Boko Haram and headsman
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💔 story!
So sad
This is directly attributed to the war on drugs the right wing has convinced our society. It is war like all others that devastate people & communities while weapons manufactures and war profiteers make serious bank. The emphasis must be in better more accessible healthcare.
As profits from reporting on decontextualized realities of oppressed people, How many US companies created problems that kill so many? No way to tell. Broken immigration laws & systems designed to keep foreign labor under permanent exploitation, that's real news too
Oh my god. Awful. I can only imagine how it must feel to be in such a desperate and scary position. Trump Mexico cartels
On America’s border.
That's a photo of Kids.. You can do better than that..
This is so fucking sad.
Con AMLO como presidente y su partido político MORENA está peor México
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Very sad
But Trump is fine with making brown people wait here to seek asylum.