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Child soldiers of Guerrero call out for government aid against the narcos The youngest of the firearms-wielding group is six years old
Published on Monday, April 12, 2021
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A group of armed children in Guerrero has appealed for government help to combat high levels of violence in the state’s lower mountain region.
For a third consecutive year, boys wearing caps, kerchiefs, and
huaraches (traditional sandals) and toting firearms and sticks participated in a military-style parade on Saturday in Ayahualtempa, a town in José Joaquín de Herrera.
The parade, in which adult community police members also participated, serves as both a call for help to the federal government and a show of force to criminal groups, such as Los Ardillos, that operate in the opium poppy-growing lower-mountain region, located east of the state capital, Chilpancingo.