Keith Dannemiller Chronicle

This young generation was meant to anchor the nation's future. Instead, they beg in the streets and sleep under overpasses

 By DUDLEY ALTHAUS

HOUSTON CHRONICLE

July 10, 2010, 9:08AM

 MEXICO CITY — The streets snared Diego Rosas at 13, and now, five years later, he spends his days winnowing pesos by lying on broken glass to the delighted disgust of people rushing past to jobs, families and fruitful lives.

Rosas huddles nightly with three dozen other teenagers beneath a highway overpass in the Mexican capital, scrounging for meals, watching tele­vision, abusing substances, catching a fitful sleep.

"I'd like to go to university. But I didn't even finish primary school," Rosas said one recent morning with a shrug, showing off the festering scabs on his arms and back that come with his line of work. "I'd maybe like to live in a house someday. But here we have each other." 

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