Acapulco Forced to Militarize Schools as Drug Cartels Reach Into Classrooms Manuel Rueda - Fusion
go to original March 8, 2016

Mexico May Be Headed to Militarization of Schools (wochit News)

Violent crime is a familiar problem at CBTI 14, a public high school in Acapulco’s western suburbs.

Armed youths occasionally rob students of their cellphones as they climb the steep hill to school, and last year a teacher was forced out of his car at gunpoint in an apparent kidnapping attempt.

But things took a turn for the worse on Feb. 26, when two armed men in a car without a license plate approached the school gate and asked for the principal. Earlier that day the school had received an extortion call from someone claiming to be a member of a local cartel.

“They said that if we didn’t give them money they would come for us,” a school administrator told me in a hushed voice. “So we decided to cancel classes as a security measure…and to pressure the government to give us security.”

Classes resumed the following week, but only after the army deployed three heavily armed soldiers to guard the schoolhouse.

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