Collateral Damage: Mexico's lost generation

Here is a video report that adds to the recent number of reports on the youth being destroyed in Mexico. 


Added Note (Nov. 17, 2010): No source is given in the report for the 20,000 children statistic cited. One of our readers directed us to an article published today in La Jornada, a leading Mexican newspaper, in which Mexico City officials of the Department of Infants and Families (DIF) state, at a press conference, that there are less than 500 steet children. At the same press conference, a representative of  an NGO, Ririki, which serves children, disputed this figure, stating that there are at least 800 such children. Neither figure, of course, is anywhere near the 20,000 cited by NBC.  
See: Mexico City Social Organizations Refute Government Figures on Street Children

Photoblog - Mexico's lost generation: "There are 20,000 children living on the streets of Mexico City--all of them desperate, vulnerable and easy prey for Mexico's drug cartels. See NBC's Richard Engel reports below." Nov. 12, 2010