Narco Juniors - Mexico's Teen Assassins

(Tijuana, Mexico) Mexican drug gangs are recruiting teens as young as 15 years old to commit murders of rival gang members.

Feuding gangs in the violent cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez prize teenage drug cartel members, known as "narco juniors", because they give the attacks an added element of surprise and because they can't be given long prison sentences, police and social workers say.

"There are lots of us and we get $300 for each kill," said 17-year-old Eduardo, a middle-class student who was arrested in December after an army raid on a drug safe house in Tijuana.

Mexican law doesn't treat teenage murderers as criminals, rather they are considered delinquents who need counseling.