He escaped a ‘panic house’ in Mexico, where young drug users end up as hit men — or dead
The young man said that he had lived in fear since he developed drug addiction and then later fell prey to drug trafficking in Guangato, central Mexico. “Unfortunately, they have already killed my best friend and relatives,” said 19 -year -old, who is withheld because he is afraid of revenge.
“I was addicted to a critical condition. I could not find a way out, and I was afraid,” he told Noticias Telemundo.
A year ago, he managed to escape from the panic (also known as Panicueva, or Cave Panic) is commonly used by organized crime gangs in Mexico. Some of these buildings, which are located in Guanjato and other countries where drug use is rampant, also act as employment rules for young people who have been chosen to become men and agents of these criminal groups.
“It is the place where you can go, buy drugs, and rise there,” said 19 years old.
The young man said: “I entered a panic house and saw many women who had to a prostitute themselves, and many of my friends participated in the sale of drugs and ended up with death.” He said he spent five years living in a house and eventually joined a local gang.
According to the latest report by the Mexican government, Guanajuato is the country that has the largest number of murders (980 From January to April). In February, the daily average reached 12.5. Last year, and Wiping for abuse and visualization of security It revealed that 87.5 % of the population in Guanjato considered public safety to be more problematic in the state.
“They put a pistol on my head, they threatened me, they told me that I have finished, that’s all. But the most terrifying thing that I saw is how they killed my best friends,” The young man said, referring to his experience in the shelters.
He said, referring to the killers, thieves and drug dealers: “I have been asked to do many things … They send us to training to use a firearm, all of this meets, and from there successful men come, and from there thieves, hawks come,” referring to the killers, thieves and drug dealers.
“They recruit more palace.”
Guanajuato wrestlers with gang clashes on criminal activities such as fuel smuggling, which is also the increased metamvitamine epidemic center. According to the data of the Federal Ministry of Health, the rate of addiction to this drug has grown 449 % over the past twenty years.
For David Miranda, advisor at Las Joyas de LeonThe Civil Assembly, and the high use of methamphetamine is to create a social crisis in the country.
“They are employing more palace, between the ages of 12 and 17,” said Miranda. “In these” panic houses “, they recruit many minors who are now infected with men.”
Noticias Telemundo visited the Las Joyas neighborhood in the municipality of Lyon, where, according to the security secretariat in the state, criminal groups acquired a housing complex of 380 units.
“The situation in Lyon is now very demanding and dangerous,” said Miranda. “Inside these houses, there are women, girls and palace, and you see drug trafficking, women’s trafficking, and trafficking in everything.”
Most of the panic houses in the working class neighborhoods such as Las Joyas. According to the state government, there may be up to 60,000 homes across Guanajuato currently used in illegal drug use.
“In fact, you can see the panic house at any angle, anywhere. It is very easy to find it. There are many abandoned homes,” said one of the young people who were interviewed by Noticias Telendo.
“I don’t want to split again.”
According to the state figures, at least 10 people have been killed in panic homes in the past two years, and about 400 neighborhoods are struggling in the state as crime rates are high.
“Lyon is the first city in terms of drug trafficking,” said Juan Mauro Gonzalez, Minister of Security at Guangato.
“Drug houses” are not unique to Mexico; Similar trends are found in other countries, such as drug houses in the United States or drug dens in Spain. “While criminals may be attracted to abandoned homes, these spaces are also study About this issue.
“The most important thing to rehabilitate people is to change their mindset. They have to say that they no longer want it, and that they no longer want to suffer or be in this world where they were insulted and offended, and they are forced to do things.
Meanwhile, young people like people who have been interviewed by Noticias Telemundo continue the struggle to avoid returning to addiction and the dangers of “haunted homes” that abound in some areas of Guanjato.
One of the men, who told Noticias Telemundo that he wants to move to another neighborhood and have a sincere job, and he enjoys feeding people: “I am afraid. I don’t want them to hold me again and force me to do things.”
He said, “My life is really devastating, I felt very insulting.” “It is time to make a change.”
A previous version of this story was published for the first time in Noticias Tendundo.
