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May 28, 2025

How Mexico's cartels groom kids into killers

Sol remembers her first kill for a Mexican cartel: a kidnapping she committed with a handful of other young recruits that twisted into torture and bled into murder. She was 12 years old. Sol had joined the drug cartel a few months earlier, recruited by someone she knew as she sold roses on the sidewalk outside a local bar. She started as a lookout, but rose fast. The cartel liked her childish enthusiasm for learning new skills, her unquestioning loyalty, and perhaps most importantly, her status as a minor protected her from severe punishment if the cops ever caught her. "I obeyed the boss blindly," Sol, now 20 years old, told Reuters, speaking from the rehabilitation center in central Mexico where she is trying to patch her life back together. "I thought they loved me." Sol declined t

May 28, 2025

Nissan denies plans to exit India

Automaker Nissan has no plans to exit the Indian market, a top company official said on Wednesday, rejecting reports speculating on the company's future in the country. The company on the contrary plans to introduce three new products in the Indian market by early part of 2027 and also aims to add 20 more dealerships this year. In a virtual press conference, Nissan Motor India MD Saurabh Vatsa said the company aims to have a multi-product portfolio and aims to sell one lakh units each in the domestic and export markets this fiscal. "It is really important that I must put to rest any speculation that Nissan is planning to exit India and Renault Nissan Automotive India Pvt Ltd (RNAIPL) stake dilution is an indication of that," he stated.Also Read: Japan makes it to top five markets for In

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