She was 12, and it was hard for her to lift a full 15-pound load. Read more.
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Showing posts with label Mexico children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico children. Show all posts
Dec 17, 2014
In Mexico's fields, children toil to harvest crops that make it to American tables
LA Times: Alejandrina Castillo swept back her long black hair and reached elbow-deep into the chile pepper plants. She palmed and plucked the fat serranos, dropping handful after tiny handful into a bucket.
The container filled rapidly. Alejandrina stopped well before the pepper pile reached the brim.
She was 12, and it was hard for her to lift a full 15-pound load. Read more.
She was 12, and it was hard for her to lift a full 15-pound load. Read more.
Sep 4, 2014
Many Mexican child migrants caught multiple times at border
Pew Research Center: With the surge in unaccompanied children apprehended at the Southwest border, much has been written about the unusually high numbers of kids arriving from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. The number of apprehensions of Mexican child migrants rivals those of the other three countries, but many of those caught are ones who tried to cross multiple times — meaning that the total number of child migrants from Mexico is lower compared with the Central American nations.
Out of the more than 11,000 apprehensions of unaccompanied Mexican minors during this fiscal year (October 1 through May 31), only 2,700 children (24% of all the apprehensions) reported being apprehended for the first time in their lives, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Mexican government data obtained from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The other three quarters of the apprehensions were of children who reported that they had been apprehended multiple times before — 15% were of children who had been apprehended at least six times. Read more.
Out of the more than 11,000 apprehensions of unaccompanied Mexican minors during this fiscal year (October 1 through May 31), only 2,700 children (24% of all the apprehensions) reported being apprehended for the first time in their lives, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Mexican government data obtained from the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The other three quarters of the apprehensions were of children who reported that they had been apprehended multiple times before — 15% were of children who had been apprehended at least six times. Read more.
Oct 29, 2012
Case of blonde girl beggar strikes nerve in Mexico
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON | Associated Press – Oct 27, 2012
MEXICO CITY (AP) — At a busy intersection, a girl with a high half ponytail looks at you as she begs for coins. There is dirt beneath her fingernails and her pink shirt looks unwashed. The image in the photo could fit thousands of impoverished Mexican children who sell gum or beg for money in the streets, but for one thing: The girl in this picture is blonde.
The flurry of internet attention to the photo, and the quick way officials reacted, has renewed a debate about racism in Mexico, a nation that is proud of its mestizo heritage but where millions of indigenous people live in poverty and passers-by often barely notice the dark-skinned children begging in the street.
It started last week when a Facebook user posted a photo of the girl standing next to a rearview mirror on a Guadalajara street. He apparently suspected she might have been stolen because "her parents are brown," and said he had already contacted a welfare agency and state prosecutors.
"Let's spread this photo around," he wrote. Read more.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — At a busy intersection, a girl with a high half ponytail looks at you as she begs for coins. There is dirt beneath her fingernails and her pink shirt looks unwashed. The image in the photo could fit thousands of impoverished Mexican children who sell gum or beg for money in the streets, but for one thing: The girl in this picture is blonde.
The flurry of internet attention to the photo, and the quick way officials reacted, has renewed a debate about racism in Mexico, a nation that is proud of its mestizo heritage but where millions of indigenous people live in poverty and passers-by often barely notice the dark-skinned children begging in the street.
It started last week when a Facebook user posted a photo of the girl standing next to a rearview mirror on a Guadalajara street. He apparently suspected she might have been stolen because "her parents are brown," and said he had already contacted a welfare agency and state prosecutors.
"Let's spread this photo around," he wrote. Read more.
Mar 19, 2012
Drug War Damage: Mexico's children hope that "They don't kill me or cut off my head"
"From the mouths of babes"
La Jornada: "The levels of violence, especially in the north of Mexico, have, to a notable degree, permeated into the view of reality of children and young people, and into their perception of what they expect of the future: "That it may be clean" ... "that they don't kill me" ... "no more crime" ... "no more shootings" ... "that they don't cut off my head" ... "that they don't kill my uncles" ... "that they don´t rob".
The above are responses of children between 6 and 9 years old, to a questionaire used by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), in preparation for the holding of its children's and women's consultation on April 29.
Carried out in 22 groups, the views of children between 6 and 15 linked to drug trafficking were explored. "Where do you feel insecure?" "The street", invariably. "Why?" Because there may be a shooting ... with bullets" .... (Your fear?) "that they may rob me" ... "that I may find stray bullets" .. "they may kill me with a bazooka" ... "that they kill my mom ... my family".
... And how to solve the problems? Perceptions vary among children by age, but the answers given to IFE present opposing solutions to the problem. "Speak with Los Zetas," replies a girl. "Ask them for help," is another answer. Others believe the way is to ask the police, the army and the navy to intervene in conflicts.
Appeal to police forces is not seen as a good option by all respondents, because "the police cause the problems" ... "I saw how they asked a guy for money ... yes, in the bus terminal to Mexico, the police came up to my grandfather and they took him somewhere and took his money, so I avoid going there, I'm afraid ... Sometimes the police are the ones that make the problems ... I see then asking for money ... Police cannot be trusted ... There are bad cops, I don't trust them."
However, there are other children for whom the answer to the problem of violence is simply killing those who create or belong to criminal gangs. "When I want to kill a man," says a child, "I exchange his gun for one of water, then he shoots me with the water, but then I take the pistol that he left and I kill him."
The consultation with the children and young people was conducted in Tijuana, Baja California; Campeche, Campeche; Torreon, Coahuila; Tepoztlan, Morelos; Merida, Yucatan and Mexico City.
Its aim was to research the situations where children feel more comfortable and confident (usually the home); where the risk areas are; whom do they trust; how do they seek to resolve problems; what decisions they make; how they perceive discrimination; their perception of change and the future.
... Their aspirations for the future. ... "That the politicians no longer be associated with the narcos, more equality, more social security, no more rape and unemployment , that there is no poverty and that the President change, that the police not take bribes and there is no discrimination."
About what they would like to be: .. the responses of of the children are linked to their current situation of insecurity and violence. "I would like to be a federal police or a soldier, in order to be between life and death." They want "to live without violence, that there are no shootings, that we may be safe ... have a peaceful future so that my children do not fall into this" ..." Spanish original
La Jornada: "The levels of violence, especially in the north of Mexico, have, to a notable degree, permeated into the view of reality of children and young people, and into their perception of what they expect of the future: "That it may be clean" ... "that they don't kill me" ... "no more crime" ... "no more shootings" ... "that they don't cut off my head" ... "that they don't kill my uncles" ... "that they don´t rob".
The above are responses of children between 6 and 9 years old, to a questionaire used by the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE), in preparation for the holding of its children's and women's consultation on April 29.
Carried out in 22 groups, the views of children between 6 and 15 linked to drug trafficking were explored. "Where do you feel insecure?" "The street", invariably. "Why?" Because there may be a shooting ... with bullets" .... (Your fear?) "that they may rob me" ... "that I may find stray bullets" .. "they may kill me with a bazooka" ... "that they kill my mom ... my family".
... And how to solve the problems? Perceptions vary among children by age, but the answers given to IFE present opposing solutions to the problem. "Speak with Los Zetas," replies a girl. "Ask them for help," is another answer. Others believe the way is to ask the police, the army and the navy to intervene in conflicts.
Appeal to police forces is not seen as a good option by all respondents, because "the police cause the problems" ... "I saw how they asked a guy for money ... yes, in the bus terminal to Mexico, the police came up to my grandfather and they took him somewhere and took his money, so I avoid going there, I'm afraid ... Sometimes the police are the ones that make the problems ... I see then asking for money ... Police cannot be trusted ... There are bad cops, I don't trust them."
However, there are other children for whom the answer to the problem of violence is simply killing those who create or belong to criminal gangs. "When I want to kill a man," says a child, "I exchange his gun for one of water, then he shoots me with the water, but then I take the pistol that he left and I kill him."
The consultation with the children and young people was conducted in Tijuana, Baja California; Campeche, Campeche; Torreon, Coahuila; Tepoztlan, Morelos; Merida, Yucatan and Mexico City.
Its aim was to research the situations where children feel more comfortable and confident (usually the home); where the risk areas are; whom do they trust; how do they seek to resolve problems; what decisions they make; how they perceive discrimination; their perception of change and the future.
... Their aspirations for the future. ... "That the politicians no longer be associated with the narcos, more equality, more social security, no more rape and unemployment , that there is no poverty and that the President change, that the police not take bribes and there is no discrimination."
About what they would like to be: .. the responses of of the children are linked to their current situation of insecurity and violence. "I would like to be a federal police or a soldier, in order to be between life and death." They want "to live without violence, that there are no shootings, that we may be safe ... have a peaceful future so that my children do not fall into this" ..." Spanish original
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