
Among the many horrifying videos posted online amid Mexico’s drug cartel violence, few been as profoundly shocking as that of a 14-year-old boy kidnapped in late October along with about a dozen family members in the country's south.
In the video, posted by his captors, the skinny, shoeless boy is seen sitting against a tree, his hands tied with rope and saying quietly that he works for a rival drug gang. The boy obviously spoke under duress, his schoolboy face tentative and cautious.