HAVANA, March 20 (Reverendo Pedro Crespo Jiménez, Grupo Decoro) - Young men between the ages of 17 and 26 years of age in marginal neighborhoods of Havana show growing indexes of poverty, frustration, alcoholism, depression and social dangerousness, according to a recent survey by the independent ecological organization Naturpaz.

The survey, which took in the areas of Mantilla, Pogolotti, El Fanguito, El Canal, and Jesús María, showed the young men despairing of chances of a better life. The only hope evidenced by most of those surveyed was to emigrate to the United States or other countries.

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