Organized crime now hunts for talent on Facebook, next step: LinkedIn?
It seems that organized crime in Mexico has decided to modernize and, instead of handing out flyers on street corners, it now recruits its future “stars” through social networks. The position? “Armed logistics executive” (read: hitman). The benefits include an exciting life, guaranteed adrenaline and, if you’re lucky, a funeral with expensive flowers. Of course, the pension plan is conspicuous by its absence.
This gem of information is given to us by the Prosecutor of Jalisco, Salvador González de los Santos, who with the solemnity of a weather presenter announced that Paul Alexander and Carlos, two young people who disappeared in May, ended their days in a ballistic festival between rival groups in Culiacán. The hiring? Digital, of course. Because even evil is updated.
“Some join voluntarily,” says the prosecutor, as if he were talking about a chess club
The prosecutor, in a burst of sincerity worthy of a meme, admitted that “some young people voluntarily join” crime. What a revelation! As if one woke up one day saying: “Today I feel like being a criminal, where do I sign?”. Of course, others are convinced by friends or family, because nothing unites more than blood ties… and complicity in crimes.
The most ironic thing is that the authorities know the route that these kids follow, but it seems that the State’s GPS runs out of battery just before intercepting them. “Yes, we saw them pass, but we didn’t want to spoil their trip”, they must have thought. Meanwhile, family members receive the news with that institutional touch that turns pain into bureaucratic paperwork.
Paul and Carlos, whose names are now trending topics for the saddest reasons, were identified two months after their deaths. Because in this country, even death has administrative delays. And in case drama was missing, there is a third missing person in legal limbo, because the Prosecutor’s Office has not yet confirmed if he is another “employee” of this macabre company.
How many more will there be in this “database” of horror? The prosecutor doesn’t say it, perhaps because telling it would ruin the surprise… or because not even they know.
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