The secret world of teen cartel hit men

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Laredo, Texas (CNN) -- On a dusty, remote ranch across the Rio Grande from this Texas border town, an intimidating drug lord stood over 13-year-old Rosalio Reta and handed him a gun.

Reta didn't know who the man was, but it was clear he instilled fear and commanded respect among everyone standing around watching the dramatic scene unfold.

The American teen had never before met anyone who carried a pistol adorned with such an unforgettable decoration: the number "40" encrusted in diamonds on the handle.

The cartel leader looked at Reta and ordered him to shoot and kill a man tied up on the ground. If he refused to murder the stranger, Reta recalls, the drug lord would have killed him.

Rosalio Reta's career as a teen drug cartel assassin had begun.

"I knew that my life had just changed forever," Reta told CNN this week, 11 years later. "That's a day that I'm never going to be able to forget. After that, I didn't have no life."

Reta's boyhood friend Gabriel Cardona says he started his life as a criminal by stealing cars and selling them across the border in Mexico. He graduated to smuggling drugs and weapons across the Rio Grande. Cardona says it wasn't long before he also became a drug cartel assassin. He was only 16.

Reta and Cardona agreed to give CNN rare interviews from the Texas prisons where both men are serving life sentences for murder. They offered a first-hand glimpse inside the sinister world of drug cartels, a world that plagues innocent people on both sides of the border.

The mysterious drug lord who ordered Reta to shoot the stranger at the ranch that day, Reta says, was Miguel Angel Trevino. For years, Trevino was the unrivaled leader of the ruthless Zetas drug cartel until police arrested him last month just outside Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.

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I dunno, his story might not be bullshit but for me it is a little hard to believe. It seems to me that there would be SO many people willing to kill for money in Mexico that there isn't really a need or benefit to forcing children into it. With billions of dollars of illicit drug money and thousands of people massacred in drug hits every year it wouldn't appear to me there is a shortage of people looking for this kind of work. I doubt many cartel hitmen had great lives before they got into it but I doubt that many were literally forced either.

I don't doubt they get into it young but this sort of shit happens with street gangs in the US as well. Extreme poverty often forces very young people into the worst types of crimes, it is certainly a shame but it is nothing new.
 
article is contradicting
at first it says he became an assassin at 13, then later it says he started by stealing cars and became an assassin at 16
 
^ Never picked up on that but it isn't too surprising there would be discrepancy in his story/lies. You have to figure, these guys likely come from poverty, had a few years in the fast lane killing people and/or moving product and throwing around cash before it all comes to an end and they are in jail for the rest of their life. If they get some kind of attention, any attention but especially media attention, is it surprising they would jazz up their stories a bit to increase their gangster appeal and perhaps throw in a bit about how they were really victims.

I think that virtually all hired killers must be sociopaths and probably narcissists too, keeping this in mind I am not too surprised to see some of them making claims about how hardcore they were or how it wasn't really their fault. Sort of fits in with the personality type to be honest. There is a chance this dude isn't bullshitting but in my opinion the chance he IS bullshitting is greater...

Not to mention, who do you think would be the more efficient killer in the long run. Taking gradually indoctrinated group members who escalate their activities over time and have had atleast a medium length term of cash incentive for doing so, or picking some scared teenager and saying kill this guy or we will kill you? I would think in the latter circumstance this would instill quite an aversion to killing in the child who was forced, everything about that situation is fucking terrifying, whereas in the first scenario you are taking people with a demonstrated willingness to do others harm for financial reward and gradually breaking them in, I think these people would make much more effective killers and surely seasoned killers like Mexican drug cartels would recognize this.
 
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