Getting to the top: How rock climbing saves kids from Mexico's drug gangs

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Your father's gone north to work and left a void in the household. Your mother is too tired from her own grueling job to offer as much guidance and nurturing as she'd like. School promises no immediate reward. Your most accessible source of social support comes from one of the many drug-dealing gangs in your city

Maybe you're grand-fathered into the gang by having a sibling, or another older relative, already involved. Either way, soon you're selling drugs and huffing the paint-thinner toluene daily. Your future prospects are now dimmer still

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