Rising cartel violence in Mexico has led to the recruitment of former Colombian soldiers by Mexican drug cartels. This comes ...

Colombian mercenaries are being lured to Mexico to fight for powerful drug trafficking groups such as the Jalisco New ...

Sol remembers her first kill for a Mexican cartel: a kidnapping she committed with a handful of other young recruits that ...

According to the U.S. Bureau of International Labor Affairs, an estimated 30,000 children are involved in criminal groups in ...

Upon arriving in Mexico, it is evident that the job offer was a front for cartel employment. Arguably, the more ubiquitous digital recruitment becomes, the more opportunities the cartels have of ...

STORY: "They always told me, ‘You are our little sister, the youngest and we love you very much.’ They said many beautiful things that I believed, I thought this was the best family I had. But over ...

A Mexican government report into the cartel recruitment of children published last year found minors as young as six have joined organized crime and also highlighted the growing use of technology ...

A Mexican government report into the cartel recruitment of children published in 2024 found minors as young as six have joined organised crime and also highlighted the growing use of technology ...