“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat
The International Crisis Group says women are joining the cartels in greater numbers. NewsNation’s Jorge Ventura says the cartels often target women from broken families, and the cartel leaders value women for the confidence and their abilities to evade police. The report also says children have been recruited, some of them nicknamed “narco juniors.”
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