Drug cartels in Mexico are no imaginary problem. A new video game entitled Call of Juarez: The Cartel has upset local authorities who deal with the real cartel on a daily basis.
The very violent game takes place in Ciudad Juarez on the border of El Paso, Texas. It’s a seek and destroy, shoot ‘em up game where the player is armed with a number of weapons.
Mexico is an already violent place that is riddled with drug related crimes and deaths, 6,000 between 2009-2010.
Ricardo Boone Salmon, a congressman said, “It is true there is a serious crime situation, which we are not trying to hide, but we also should not expose children to this kind of scenario so that they are going to grow up with this kind of image and lack of values”
The state legislature of Chihuahua, where Ciudad Juarez is located voted unanimously agreed to petition a request to the nation’s Interior Department to ban the game.
Full article from the NY times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/world/americas/21mexico.html?scp=8&sq=mexico&st=nyt
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