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Article: In Mexico, officials battling with drug pushers targeting children.(Chicago Tribune)
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- October 9, 2002
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MEXICO CITY _ Outside the big metal doors at Vicente Mora grade school, some street vendors sell candy. Some sell toy trinkets. Some sell kid-sized packets of cocaine.
Police arrested two women outside the school recently trying to sell drugs in child-sized doses at child-sized prices. Some of the envelopes reportedly were decorated with Pokemon figures to lure the children.
The arrests outside a school in the rough Iztapalapa barrio are a bleak aspect of efforts by Mexican and American officials to combat the drug trafficking trade along their common border.
There were nine busts for peddling drugs at schools in the capital in September. They ...