'Narcojuniors', the future of drug trafficking in Mexico

Through your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, the new generation of kingpins show the power they have.

They like the luxury and excesses, women, parties and sports cars, but what they like is to show his followers in social networks and public sipse.com and contraparte.mx

The new generation of Mexican drug traffickers are known as 'Narcojuniors'.

In an interview on the news portal Terra, José Luis Montenegro, journalist, researcher and author of Narcojuniors: the heirs of criminal power, describes the phenomenon.

This new type of drug trafficker is impossible to understand without taking into account technological advances and, in particular, the growing popularity of social networks, where they show their power, often inherited, Terra explains.

" 'The Zetas' kill 20 and hang them on a bridge and thereby generate terror. Here 'narcojuniors' also show his authority.

Is similar to laugh and make fun of the authorities, including citizens , "said Montenegro.

However, the characteristics of this new type of drug traffickers go beyond his passion for social networks, and also have to do with a new type of training and new skills.

"They know grow marijuana in the mountains of Durango, Sinaloa and Chihuahua. They know the routes to the United States and who to contact in Colombia. They understand supply and demand , " Montenegro explained in his book, quoted by the portal.

" They study business administration. They attend boxing matches at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada hotel. It does not bother you buy clothes in New York, transit in the streets of Medellin, organize parties in Paris or close business in Los Cabos" he adds.

According to the journalist, the government has the power to change things, but not used.