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TEEN DRUG CARTELS GROWING IN POWER ACROSS MEXICO
October 25 2011
Cancun, Mexico – Most teens spend the majority of their time fretting over dates, weed, texts, and Facebook posts, at least in the United States. Being a teenager is, after all, a time of freedom. You are free, more or less, from your parents and have none of the responsibilities of being an adult. For that short period of time, a person is as free as they ever will be, and that makes it a time of celebration.
Of course, not everyone in every country has that type of freedom. Some people spend their teen years slaving away at jobs, trying to help their families survive. That is very much the case in Mexico where many teens have been hard at work pushing the drug trade and taking out rivals who get in the way, including a 15-year old nicknamed "El Gallito" or "The Little Rooster".
Arrested, "El Gallito" admitted to police that he was indeed the head of a major drug cartel and that he had killed two dealers, women who had crossed him. While youths working in the drug trade are nothing new, the degree of success for El Gallito does make him unique and an inspiration to hundreds of other young teens looking to make a mark for themselves.
“He confessed to having full participation in carrying out these deeds, and from the start he claimed to have been in charge of drug sales in the area, in this case for the Pelones, and that his duties were to receive the drugs,” an insider told MSNBC.
The arrest was the second high profile teen drug player to have been taken into custody after a 14-year old was arrested last year for a series of beheadings.
Like that arrest, El Gallito will likely not serve a lengthy sentence due to his age.
“This is really one of the unspoken tragedies amongst many in the Mexican drug wars. Teens should really be doing the things that teens do, worrying about friends and girls. I mean he wouldn’t have had to worry about the ladies I’m sure, and he could just kill the haters, but those worries are what make a boy into a man,” said Scrape TV Drug Policy analyst Jason Walker. “These boys have lost something in what it means to be a teen in the world. I mean you do have to appreciate their hard work and their ambition, achieving so much in such a short time, but still one has to think that something was lost along the way.”
It is believed that this is the first arrest for El Gallito and that he likely won’t be caught again anytime soon.
“I mean yes, he did accomplish more in his fifteen years than most people accomplish in a lifetime but that s hardly justification. It’s great for him, maybe, but still something, some tangible experience will have been lost and that is the real tragedy of this drug war. Well, that and all the headless bodies,” continued Walker. “It’s pretty clear that the enforcement is simply not working in Mexico and that things will need to change in order for things to change. Hopefully they can do something to give these kids back their childhood and allow them not to worry about whose head to cut off next.”
El Gallito’s Facebook account has been inactive since his arrest.
William Ashford, Business Correspondent
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