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  • To most of the city, however, the marginalized youth of Santa Fe were known as chavos banda, the media-coined term that essentially criminalized young people, casting them as thugs and thieves.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • To most of the city, however, the marginalized youth of Santa Fe were known as chavos banda, the media-coined term that essentially criminalized young people, casting them as thugs and thieves.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • To most of the city, however, the marginalized youth of Santa Fe were known as chavos banda, the media-coined term that essentially criminalized young people, casting them as thugs and thieves.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • Both had a son, the other his daughter, in custody by the police, the other two "chavos" I recognized as the ones my neighbors had warned me were suspected as the neighborhood "rateros" responsible for various burglaries in the recent past.

    800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009

  • That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.

    800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009

  • Both had a son, the other his daughter, in custody by the police, the other two "chavos" I recognized as the ones my neighbors had warned me were suspected as the neighborhood "rateros" responsible for various burglaries in the recent past.

    800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009

  • That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.

    800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009

  • That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.

    800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009

  • That night, around two in the morning, I was awakened by a neighbor pounding on my door and calling my cel phone, telling me the police had some "chavos" in custody that were found by the security patrol entering my cocherra and that I needeed to come out to the street.

    800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009

  • Both had a son, the other his daughter, in custody by the police, the other two "chavos" I recognized as the ones my neighbors had warned me were suspected as the neighborhood "rateros" responsible for various burglaries in the recent past.

    800 number and email addresses for citizens to report suspicious activities 2009

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