NewsWhore
08-02-2011, 03:30 PM
A very thorough article in today's Diario Libre traces the lives of several very young boys named Raul, Luis and Carlos, who were either forced by relatives to sell drugs or carry drugs or induced by relatives to try drugs and who then became "consumers." Uncles, fathers and brothers who are now all in prison are part of the story.
The other part is the story-telling by the young children, kids who started in the business at 10, 11 or 12 years of age and are now in Hogar Crea rehabilitation center for Minors in Santiago de los Caballeros. Some carried marijuana for older cousins, others consumed and often "spent all night doing drugs and selling." Most come from dysfunctional families, with absent parents, such as a mother in Spain, or an absent father or in other cases, no parents at all and were raised by grandparents who were incapable of controlling the children.
Sometimes it was enticement with clothes, new sneakers or a motorcycle, or it was just family pressure to "try this" which got the youngsters on the way to crime and jail. Several of them know that they cannot go home, since the gangs will kill them. Others will try to finish school and learn a trade.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)
The other part is the story-telling by the young children, kids who started in the business at 10, 11 or 12 years of age and are now in Hogar Crea rehabilitation center for Minors in Santiago de los Caballeros. Some carried marijuana for older cousins, others consumed and often "spent all night doing drugs and selling." Most come from dysfunctional families, with absent parents, such as a mother in Spain, or an absent father or in other cases, no parents at all and were raised by grandparents who were incapable of controlling the children.
Sometimes it was enticement with clothes, new sneakers or a motorcycle, or it was just family pressure to "try this" which got the youngsters on the way to crime and jail. Several of them know that they cannot go home, since the gangs will kill them. Others will try to finish school and learn a trade.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)