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The era in which Mexican teenagers admired and looked to be rock stars, athletes or superheroes seems to have ended. Today, the most common 'role model' are the drug lord hitmen.
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That was the result of a study by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLASCO), in which middle school studenles revealed that 26.3% of the 400 men interviews believed that their friends or people their age would like to be drug dealers or hitmen, according to the Mexican newspaper El Universal.
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The poll took place in three states in the country and found out that the figure that most competes with that of drug lords is of a businessman with 17%. Meanwhile, 12.4% want to be professors, 10.7% policemen or military while 4.4% want to work for the government. Photo: AFP -
When it comes to being an immigrant, only 1.4% show the option. Of those polled, 39.7% showed no interest in any of the options.
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The bussinessman option was the second place behind drug dealers and hitment, especially in the Northern cities, said Joes del Tronco, who led the investigation. Photo: AFP -
The study reflects the thinking of young people that have spent the last year in a country in which 12,349 people died from violent crimes connected to organized crime. Photo: AFP -
Adding to that, Mexican authorities assure that during Felipe Calderon's six year term, over 70,000 Mexicans died from those types of crimes.
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The analysis hoped to see how the drug wars have affected various geographic zones in the country, for which reason Baja California, Chihuahua, Colima, Durango, the State of Mexico, Guerrero, Tabasco and Tamaulipas where chosen for the investigation.
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In the state of Mexico, the number is reduced to 1.9%. Meanwhile, in the state of Colima the number jumps to 15.3%.
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The Mexican government has been watchingv closely the measures taken by Barack Obama to strengthen gun control, and their flow towards Mexico which nourishes organized crime.
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The case in Durango, a state that has been hit hardest by drug trafficing, value the figure of a businessman most at 20.5% with drug trafficker coming in fourth at 8.2%. In second place is a hit man with 15.6%, followed by police or military at 13.1%. Professor (5.7%) and government employee (4.1%) come in last. Photo: AFP -
Roberto Mendez Cervantes, a psychologist who interviewed the students in depth, signaled that the teenagers were secuded by the images of drug lords and hit men because of the power and money they represent. Meanwhile, they thought the professsion of teacher was authoritarian and untrustworthy. Photo: AFP -
When divided by sex, it was found that only 14.7% of young men believe their school is not violent, while 58.7% believed it was a little violent, 16.9% simply referred to it as violent while 6.3% said it was very violent. When the owmen where asked the same question, 14.3% said it was not violent, 60.7% said it was a little violent, 17.3% called it violent and only 3.5% called it very violent.
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The specialists believe that there are cities where institutionalized crime has institutionalized because its members are respected and recognized, with some teenagers even wearing criminal logos on their belongings. Photo: AFP -
New president, Enrique Pena Nieto, has said he will not abandon the war against drugs, regarldess, he said the deepest damage and the most important war, of influencing the young citizens, has been won by the drug lords (Sources: El Universal/Agencies).
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The era in which Mexican teenagers admired and looked to be rock stars, athletes or superheroes seems to have ended. Today, the most common 'role model' are the drug lord hitmen.
Photo: AFP
