wendy devlin
Nov 18, 2010, 8:37 AM
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The swelling ranks of 'ni-ni'(young people with neither education, nor work) are added to daily, by children, considered orphaned by the drug wars.
'Veteran human rights lawyer Gustavo de la Rosa, an investigator for the Chihuahua state human rights commission that covers Ciudad Juarez, analyzed a pool of 5,000 drug war dead in the city, only separated from El Paso, Texas, by a wire fence and the dry river bed of the Rio Grande. Based on data showing Mexican men aged 18-35 have an average 1.7 kids, de la Rosa estimated they left 8,500 orphans behind.
Extend the math over a national level and Mexico, which considers a child to be orphaned even if its mother survives, could be looking at a total of 50,000 drug war orphans to date.'
http://www.reuters.com/...dUSTRE6952YW20101006
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