MEXICO CITY (AP) Drug cartels in Mexico are recruiting youths through contacts made on multiplayer online video games, officials said Wednesday. Ricardo Mejía, Mexico’s assistant public safety secretary, said an apparent cartel recruiter had already bought bus tickets for three boys between the ages of 11 and 14.
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Jacobo grew up in the western Mexico state of Jalisco, home to the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel. But at age 12, he was recruited to carry out his first murder for the cartel. “They go around looking for kids who are out on the streets and need money,” he recalled. “At 12 years old, I became sort of a hired killer.”