ZACATECAS.- With deceptions, young boys son recruited via Facebook and WhatsApp by the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel under the promise of giving them a job, then kidnapping them and taking them to camps to train them as hitmen.
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According to Luis, at the beginning of 2017 he was working in a rehabilitation center, but since he could not afford the salary and wanted to get away from the environment of addictions, he looked for a new job using social networks.
In April of that year he joined the page of Facebook GDL Job Board and Guadalajara Jobs. By inbox they connected him for a job offer: 4 thousand pesos a week as a security guard. He then contacted the woman who sent him the message and she asked him to contact Mario, the company’s shift supervisor.
A week later he was added to a WhatsApp group along with 15 other people interested in the job. They asked them to attend a training session in the municipality of Tala and they would give them 4 thousand pesos in advance.
How could he think that on their first day of work they would be put into safe houses and then climbed into camps in the Sierra de Ahuisculco, but not to kill them, but to train them and force them to work for the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel. The families of some of them reported them as missing, without knowing that they were alive in the hands of the crime organized.
THE REALITY IN ZACATECAS
The Ministry of Public Security (SSP) of Zacatecas detected the recruitment of minors to add them to the ranks at crime organized; teenagers and young boys of several municipalities are persuaded or deceived through social networks, so a prevention program will be implemented.
“There have been countless cases,” warned the head of the SSP, Arturo López Bazán. He specified that this mode of operation was identified in Fresnillo, Valparaíso, Jerez de García Salinas and Monte Escobedo, although he clarified that they are not the only places where it occurs, since it has been throughout the state.
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He exemplified that recently, security authorities arrested a group of people in Fresnillo, including adolescents from Mexico City; the young boys They declared that they had barely a day arrived at El Mineral.
They stated that they arrived in the Zacatecan municipality by truck; They were collected at the bus station and distributed in neighborhoods, such as Industrial and Plan de Ayala, or in communities, where they had to be trained and received functions to be carried out.
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The age range of the minors who have fallen into this trap of crime organized goes from 14 to 17 years. With fake profiles, recruiters contact teens in groups or chat rooms. Facebook, in which they offer drugs or circulate promises of supposedly good salaries.
Many of the young boys Enrolled were detained without even receiving the first payment promised by the criminal cells.
