Drug Violence Traumatizes Mexico's Children
The little boy, his school uniform neatly pressed and his friends gathered around, held up 10 fingers, each one representing a dead body he said he had seen outside his school one morning. He was not finished, though. He put down the 10 fingers and then put up 2 more. Twelve bodies in all. “They chopped out the tongues,” the boy said, seemingly fascinated by what he saw at the scene of the mass killing outside Valentín Gómez Farías Primary School two weeks ago. “I saw the blood,” offered a classmate, enthusiastically.Full_Story