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Mexican villages arm children in desperate bid By MARIA VERZA article Children hold their training weapons, some real and some fake, during a display for the media designed to attract the federal government's attention to the dangers of organized crime their town negotiates daily in Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico Expand AYAHUALTEMPA, Mexico - The children in this mountain village usually spend their days caring for goats or cows and playing with their dogs. But on the rare occasions that the press comes to Ayahualtempa, the kids are lined up and handed guns. They pull on the shirts of...

Mexican villages arm children in desperate bid for attention MARÍA VERZA, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 24 1of24Children hold their training weapons, some real and some fake, during a display for the media designed to attract the federal government's attention to the dangers of organized crime that their town negotiates daily in Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico, Wednesday, April 28, 2021. International organizations have condemned the "recruitment" of children and warned of the effects.Marco Ugarte/APShow MoreShow Less 2of24A child holds a fake, wooden rifle during a...

La Jauría opens with a scene that’s hard to forget. In a classroom in an upper-class Catholic school in Santiago, a drama teacher asks a female student to pretend he’s her boyfriend. As an acting exercise, it’s wrong in all kinds of ways, a creepy, sleazy exercise that’s clearly excruciating for the student. It’s made even worse by the teacher, Ossandón (Marcelo Alonso) recording the results; when the school’s female students mount a mass protest against him, it’s hard not to be relieved that somebody’s standing up for what’s right.