quarta-feira, 24 de dezembro de 2008

Economia do Crime

NARCOTRÁFICO  DOMINA O MÉXICO

Winning Hearts and Minds

 

It appears that primary loyalty to gangs and warrior cultural values are gaining ground in northern Mexico at a deep level. From the Christian Science Monitor:

...it's also generating a cultural shift in Mexico that might be harder to turn back. Juan Daniel Acosta, a director of a secondary school in Chihuahua City, says one of his students posted on the Internet her pride that her father is a narcotrafficker.

 

Mr. Acosta's wife, Irma Leticia Navarro, teaches at the local elementary school. She says that kids are taking turns playing executioner and victim; a first-grader recently stated his wish to become an assassin when he grows up.

 

Ricardo Ravelo, an investigative journalist with Proceso magazine, says that children in states torn apart by the drug war now idolize and imitate narcoculture. "The narcos are powerful, untouchable, undefeatable," he says. "For these children, it's not very important to them to study or imagine themselves on a career path. For them, the attractive path is drug trafficking and its personalities."

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