Collateral Damage: Mexico's orphans are casualties of drug wars

AFP: Mexico's orphans are casualties of drug wars: CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico  "With a child's unfettered frankness, six-year old Jorge tells a social worker that he is saving his pesos for the one thing he wants more than anything: an AK-47 automatic rifle.

It will take a weapon at least that deadly, the boy reckons, to visit retribution on the assassins who brutally shot and killed his father.

Jorge is one of 12,000 children orphaned in Mexico's relentless and bloody drug wars. ... "At least 12,000 children have lost one or both of their parents," said Gustavo de la Rosa, an official from Mexico's human rights commission."