Why Are Emo Kids Getting Attacked In Mexico?

On March 7, in the central Mexican city of Querétaro, a mob of nearly 800 teenagers poured into the Plaza de Armas, fists cocked, blood boiling, looking for emo kids to take their frustrations out on.

And this was not an isolated incident. Over the next three weeks, a wave of "anti-emo" violence swept through Mexico, first in the capital of Mexico City, where mobs attacked emo kids, and then in the border towns of Tijuana and Juarez, where members of other social cliques (primarily punkeros, cholos and darketos, or goths) skirmished with emos.