Sebastian and his five years have drawn on a yellow sheet three figures.
- Who is he?, Asked the kindergarten teacher.
- my dad is killing another man ...
- "And this Who is it?
- That's me and I am helping to kill my dad ... Sebastian
strokes trace much of what happens in the colonial Mexico 68, west of Ciudad Juárez.
In the courtyard of a kindergarten, where last October was placed a blanket that threatened the extermination of 300 mobsters, a teacher told me: "Many of the children we have here are aggressive, fight and reflect anxiety. Half of the Mexico 68 is climbing on a so ma, with steep streets and capeadas with earth. "
"Look," he says by looking at a child who eats alone a cake ", he saw how they killed a neighbor and now has trouble speaking."
"Many of these children have witnessed crimes, vandalism and gangs. Some have parents killers or drug dealers."
The professor, who is Kenite eg with a body that seems stuck in a girl of 15 years, top:
"Sometimes I pretend to be soldiers and assassins. A few days ago one of them told another friend: 'Culero, we to take a few tequilas ... '
"Last week we were in class and asked them what they wanted to be great. The children raised their hand and there were those who said 'when I grow up I want to be like my dad and kill people. "
walked to one end of the kindergarten playground and a gale cold reminds me that these days the sun goes down the curtain early.
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At six p.m. Juarez remains unclear. Two children run past, rolling an old tire. The teacher noted that some students say their parents will steal because they have no work. I have also heard
-ta-eat their game characters are soldiers and gunmen. "When I grow up I will use gun!" Said one of them.
In the same kindergarten, another teacher who has asked not to appoint to the fear of a penalty of Educational Services of the State of Chihuahua, he ordered them not to speak of violence, asks: "What future is pear to them? Did you know that many children do not show friendship? "And loose courage" is coughing children say they want to go to the maquila, or aspire to be cholos! ".
- What is the main feature detected in children of this kindergarten?, I insist.
- What are insensitive. Bad things are not the ma for them. Can you imagine a child playing the federal and saying I'll kill you?
I had to have a child in the room who was afraid to hear the helicopters and how do I asked his mom what was wrong with that, she told me that his dad walked in a helicopter looking for the federal child and when I saw them spend said: "And go looking for my dad." III .-
have long words and federal assassins and soldiers, in Juárez, are in the vocabulary of thousands of fam ily.
On the avenue Paseo Triunfo de la República, two trucks of federal agents come to the mall. A car screeching tires is enough to change its position. Jump from the truck and pointed their weapons back. But he's nobody. Only a sound and a driver, who, fearing, squats at the reaction.
tension of almost five thousand federal agents have been sent to Juarez is not free.
On July 15, 2010 a car bomb, ar made up of a Mexican drug gang known as La Linea, exploded in downtown Juarez and killed two federal police, a municipal and a doctor.
The reaction of the cartel was a source, the capture of one of their leaders called Jesus Armando Acosta, 35.
In this year in Ciudad Juarez have killed 11 federal agents and 10 have been injured. The presence of the military has faced the consciences of many Juarez.
"When they arrived, the gene you saw it. But after the atrocities and abuses began. A lot of families took their cars, saying they were illegal and demanded money be returned. So people aho ra sees them with suspicion" I said to Mrs. Araceli Aztec colony.
In April 2010, a Mexican official source revealed that 10 federal agents had been arrested on charges of extorting money from traders of pirated products, which called for up to four thousand dollars to not take away their goods and they could continue selling.
The master of the colony Mexico 68 gives me another clue. A group of professors at the Na tional Pedagogical University, lifted the carpet to find out what is causing the violent behavior of some children in kindergarten in colonias of Juarez.
One of the teachers who led the research talks that began to detect cases four years ago.
- Now we can see that children are incorporating into your life what you see in the city, army trucks, federal, soldiers and parents who commit crimes.
- What alarmed us is that children have changed their traditional games. Pretending to be thugs and make the toy machine guns and pistols. We have to tell you that a gun is to harm another person.
But the media beat us, what they hear on the news we want ...
violence, he says, is part of their generation: they grow with it. The children are terrified of some sounds, when you hear loud sounds they think it's a volley of bullets. There are many niños que se quedan con adormecimiento. Como no saber actuar o qué hacer.
– ¿Cómo puede salir Juárez de esto?, le pregunto.
– Tratando de unir nuevamente a la familia. Porque esos niños, cuando crezcan y tengan 12 ó 13 años, no tendrán suficientes juicios morales y la delgada línea entre el bien y el mal, la cruzarán pronto.
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A unos dos kilómetros de ahí, en un negocio de tortillas de harina, Carmen, –sin apellido por su seguridad– ha dejado a sus tres hijos en casa.
Enviudó hace casi un año. A su marido lo asesinaron cuando reparaba su automóvil. “Los que lo mataron an dan ahí sueltos”, me dice y sirve nigerrima coffee.
now have to sell burritos from 10 pesos in the vicinity of the international bridge connecting El Paso, Texas.
According to the local association of maquiladoras in Juárez violence has left at least 10 000 orphans. The Mexican government has no official figure about it.
VI.
But kindergarten teachers not only care for the imitation of violence by children, also are concerned that come your way. One of them, not yet born. April Alvarado brings in her womb. Both live in the municipal jail in Juarez.
"I have two months pregnant, said in April while on a piñata glue sticks, in the next few days break with his cellmates.
This is the second time that the mother, the father of her first child was a member of the band The Aztecs, but died in a confrontation with federal agents. April said his partner was in drug trafficking.
The Aztecs, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a gang that has made alliances with Mexican cartels. Would have more than 10 thousand members living on both sides of the border between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas.
The FBI says that control the drug distribution centers and prisons retail on the Mexican side. They are also hired for in office. April
says: "Yes, he (the father of her first child) was Azteca." In her second pregnancy, your child will have another dad, a neighbor of jail in April, which also is in jail for trafficking.
- Everything is quiet , we have many privileges, says while it also boasts pink colored paper and selling them out of jail.
And suddenly, before the surprised look on Hector Conde, spokesman for the prison that accompanies the visit- clarifies that the privileges are to study, work or exceeded within the prison.
April says it has less than 30 years, but his body seems to over 40.
- Why is prey?
- Because I was caught with 40 bugs heroin ... Abril
up to the bedrooms and do not I see her that morning. VI .-
Hours later, outside the prison, I meet with Professor Mary Perchez Nevares Dora, a teacher at the National Pedagogical University, with many years of experience in the management of preschool children.
Account: "Once we were in recess, and suddenly, some children came to tell us that some children had in the back garden were playing the gunmen. They were bound hand and foot. I wonder how you did this, but the children were frightened and kept quiet ... "
Days after the conver sation with professors, a group of gang members set fire to a kindergarten in the San Antonio, because it allegedly had not paid the fee required them extortionists.
Professor takes me up a wall along the Paseo de la República.
There is a picture of a child and the phrase: "I want peace, no gun." Strokes are signed Irvin Gustavo Mata.
The teacher Dora looks at a drawing hand and says, "If we do nothing, children of Juarez will be the next assassins."
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