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1/23 | The new wall reinforcing the border between Mexico and the U.S. has surveillance towers and night vision video cameras. This makes arms and drugs trafficking more difficult, and even more so for migrants attempting to cross over to the United States. Tijuana, Mexico.
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2/23 | A woman hugs her son and checks what he bought in the market. Their house is built on the wall dividing the United States and Mexico on the Tijuana border.
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3/23 | A man with tattooed arms holds up a figure of Saint Death. Worship of Saint Death has spread throughout Mexico. She is mainly worshipped by prisoners and criminals seeking protection.
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4/23 | A woman comes out of a place devoted to the worship of Saint Death, where people place candles and ask for their prayers to be answered. Mexico City, 1 July 2009.
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5/23 | Drug addictions live and shoot up heroin on the Rio canal, on the Tijuana border.
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6/23 | A man shoots a dose of heroin into another drug addict’s neck. Tijuana, Mexico.
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7/23 | Bullet marks inside a car where a person with high-caliber weapons was killed by a group of criminals in Guerrero, Mexico.
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8/23 | Prostitutes hang around waiting for clients in the streets of downtown Tijuana, Mexico.
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9/23 | Dancer at a night-club in Acapulco, Mexico.
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10/23 | A couple walks down the streets of Tijuana, Mexico at night.
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11/23 | A dejected man waits patiently during the night for the right moment to jump over the wall separating Mexico from the United States in the city of Tijuana. 11 November 2009.
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12/23 | Two men prepare a syringe to shoot up a dose of heroin on the Tijuana border.
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13/23 | A drug addict looks out of a house he has built from plastic waste. He lives next to other drug addicts on the Tijuana, Mexico border.
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14/23 | An alleged drug peddler is arrested and frisked by the police. Tijuana is one of the cities where the largest amount of drugs is shipped to the United States.
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15/23 | An alleged drug dealer is arrested by an armed policeman when he was trying to escape in Tijuana, Mexico.
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16/23 | A man’s hand is covered by tape protecting the wound caused when his finger was cut off by a group of criminals. This man was rescued from his kidnapper and taken to the Mexican army barracks in Tijuana, Mexico.
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17/23 | A state policeman observes the hidden entrance to a basement where a marihuana greenhouse was found in a ranch in Tecate, Mexico. 11 March 2009.
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18/23 | Portrait of a man with a weapon inside the chapel dedicated to Jesús Malverde, known as “The Saint of the Drug Traffickers.
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19/23 | Mexican soldiers prepare to leave the barracks to patrol the streets of Tijuana, Mexico.
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20/23 | A pistol with gold and silver incrustations and relief images of Saint
Death was confiscated during an operation where they arrested a group of drug traffickers at a party. The weapons were displayed at a military base in Tijuana, Mexico. 9 March 2009.
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21/23 | A state policeman observes the marihuana plants found in a hidden greenhouse in the basement of a ranch in Tecate, Mexico.
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22/23 | Several men are arrested in a local police cell for alleged drug possession on the streets of Tijuana, Mexico. 9 March 2009..
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23/23 | Man arrested in a local police cell for alleged drug possession on the streets of Tijuana, Mexico. 9 March 2009..