Center for Investigative Reporting: Miguel Trevino's Teenage Assassins Daffodil Altan and Josiah Hooper - The Center for Investigative Reporting
go to original August 1, 2013

The recently captured leader of the Zetas recruited kids on both sides of the border into his Mexican drug cartel. In exclusive interviews, CIR speaks with two former teen assassins about what killing for Trevino did to them. (theifilestv)

In July, Mexican marines captured the leader of Mexico’s most violent drug cartel, Miguel Treviño. Although Treviño is known for committing and ordering grisly killings, less is known about his recruitment of children on both sides of the border into the ranks of his Zetas cartel.

Days before Trevino's capture in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, producers from The Center for Investigative Reporting were on the scene, investigating his penchant for developing teen soldiers. In exclusive interviews, CIR spoke with two former teenage assassins who say they killed for the Zetas.

Rosalio Reta, a Mexican-American who met Treviño when he was 13, says he killed 30 people for the Zetas. A young Mexican man in Nuevo Laredo also says he carried out targeted assassinations for the Zetas as a teenager.

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