How Mexico’s cartels recruit children and groom them into killers

How Mexico’s cartels recruit children and groom them into killers

Sol remembers her first kill for a Mexican cartel: a kidnapping she committed with a handful of other young recruits that twisted into torture and bled into murder. She was 12 years old. Sol had joined the drug cartel a few months earlier, recruited by someone she knew as she sold roses on the sidewalk … Read more

Mexico opens possibility of receiving non-Mexican deportees from Trump

Mexico opens possibility of receiving non-Mexican deportees from Trump

Mexico opened the possibility on Friday of receiving non-Mexican migrants deported by the United States after initially saying they would push President-elect Donald Trump to return other nationalities directly to their countries of origin. President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her daily press briefing that in cases where the US would not return migrants to their … Read more

Armed with new tech, families track down Mexico’s missing

Armed with new tech, families track down Mexico’s missing

It takes painstaking leg work — grieving mothers knocking door to door with photos and bereft wives scouring mass graves for clues. Now victims of Mexico’s missing persons crisis can also use technology to track down their loved ones. From chatbots to mass texts, social media to online guides, tech has transformed the painful hunt that … Read more