{"id":31736,"date":"2020-01-29T15:50:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=31736"},"modified":"2020-01-29T15:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T21:50:40","slug":"31736","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=31736","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/mexican-police-force-recruits-children\">Mexican children pictured taking up rifles for community police force after cartel attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grupos de autodefensa juvenil para la victoria!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/CDF3\/production\/_110632725_91ff419c-367f-49e5-b2da-473fb8189a96.jpg\" alt=\"Children who have been recruited as soldiers in Mexico\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>I feel the need,<strong> the need for AKs<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Nearly two dozen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/location-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mexican<\/a>\u00a0children whose fathers, all musicians, were killed last week in an attack blamed on a drug cartel were photographed taking up arms for an indigenous community\u2019s police force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Around 20 children, who range in age from 8 to 14 years old, according to the BBC, were depicted holding rifles and carrying out military-style exercises in the town of Chilapa, 200 miles south of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/location-mexico\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mexico City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 10\u00a0musicians were killed in an ambush while returning home from a performance \u2014\u00a0and some of the boys in the photos are believed to be their sons, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-51221276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a> added&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>A group that represents local indigenous people told the BBC that the children are being trained to defend Chilapa from gangs. Community police forces are said to be common in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Local media claimed the photos were taken to send a message to Mexico\u2019s president that there needs to be more security forces sent there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican children pictured taking up rifles for community police force after cartel attack Grupos de autodefensa juvenil para la victoria! I feel the need, the need for AKs. Nearly two dozen\u00a0Mexican\u00a0children whose fathers, all musicians, were killed last week in an attack blamed on a drug cartel were photographed taking up arms for an indigenous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=31736\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31746,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31736\/revisions\/31746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}