Mexican cartels

Although Mexico has a president, police, federals etc. the country now finds itself in a war against very powerful and financed drug cartels. More than 28,000 people have been killed in the past 4 years that president Felipe Calderon began his offensive against the nation’s drug organizations, with the cartel violence over turf and dominance as the federal police and military try to stamp them out and are having a lot of trouble because the drug traffickers also smuggle american guns across the Mexican border into Mexico. Mexican drug cartels are allegedly hiring hitmen as young as 12 years old to kill rivals and, failing that, random people such as taxi drivers and even construction workers. Mexican police are looking for a boy, thought to be about 12, nicknamed "El Ponchis" the Cloak who allegedly kills people for the Beltran Leyva cartel. This comes after the arrest of another boy, thought to be about the same age, for working as a hitman for the South Pacific cartel outside of Mexico City.