BajaNomad
Not logged in [Login - Register]

Go To Bottom
Printable Version  
Author: Subject: Military Conscript Lottery Turns into Riot in M?xicali
Anonymous
Unregistered




Posts: N/A
Registered: N/A
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 11-27-2002 at 04:52 PM
Military Conscript Lottery Turns into Riot in M?xicali


November 27, 2002

For a second time, 3,800 M?xicali eighteen-year olds assembled to find out if they would be drafted into the Mexican military, and for a second time the event was rescheduled.

Tired of turning out for the lottery and tired of not knowing their future, some of the youth in attendance destroyed tables, lottery equipment and other material items at a city facility. Unable to quiet the crowd, punches were thrown between the teens and military personnel at the event.

One mother complained that she and her son arrived at 4 a.m. for the lottery which was supposed to have begun at 8 a.m. The mother complained to the official in charge, Ricardo Alan?s Quintero, head of military recruiting for the city, that the lottery was becoming a waste of time and money for her family.

Alan?s said that the violence was due to the large number of youth that were in attendance. He also recognized that the teens got upset when it was announced that the lottery was being postponed.

Last year, on the other end of the border, in Matamoros, 4,000 young men began throwing stones at homes, attacking neighborhood residents and burning cars in the early hours of January 24 while they awaited a military-service lottery. In 2000, there was also a similar disturbance in Matamoros.

  Go To Top

 






All Content Copyright 1997- Q87 International; All Rights Reserved.
Powered by XMB; XMB Forum Software © 2001-2014 The XMB Group






"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen. The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez

 

"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt

 

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes

 

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn

 

"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law







Thank you to Baja Bound Mexico Insurance Services for your long-term support of the BajaNomad.com Forums site.







Emergency Baja Contacts Include:

Desert Hawks; El Rosario-based ambulance transport; Emergency #: (616) 103-0262