POY Latam

Show Navigation
  • Sitio Principal
  • Archivo de Photoshelter
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area
04 Noticias (Serie) All Galleries

Luis Antonio Rojas, 2ndo premio NS, 2021

10 images Created 21 Jan 2021

View: 25 | All
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x

Loading ()...

  • A municipal police officer in Mexico's Zacatecas city holds up caution tape at the scene of a shooting. During decades of authoritarian government, senior federal officials quietly refereed between cartels. State and local authorities fell in line, accepting bribes to look the other way as heroin or marijuana flowed through their states. Mexico’s democratization has changed the equation. Now, local governments are more autonomous. Crime groups increasingly are seeking influence at the municipal and state level, through threats or bribery. The country’s precarious justice system has proved incapable of checking such graft.
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 1 - Mexico’sCon...jpg
  • SAN FERNANDO, TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO - OCTOBER 18, 2020:  Anabel Garza Rivera,33, and Luciano Leal Vela, 38, kneel before the coffin of their murdered son surrounded by flower arrangements and his favorite clothing at a funeral home. After 99 days of his kidnapping, authorities got a lead from a family member that was involved and found the body of the 14-year-old boy inside a suitcase buried 22 cm deep in a field in the east part of the town. 
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 101 - Mexico’sC...jpg
  • Bullet holes riddle a house and grocery store in Juan Aldama, in Zacatecas after an attack. In northern Zacatecas, a faction of the Sinaloa cartel led by Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada has moved in. Gunmen in pickups have been seen cruising freely through the area, “MZ” emblazoned on their helmets or guns.
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 201 - Mexico’sC...jpg
  • A kid cries during a photoshoot in her birthday at the historical center of Zacatecas. Four cartels battle for control of fentanyl routes through Zacatecas, while smaller groups rob and extort money from ordinary Mexicans.
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 301 - Mexico’sC...jpg
  • A family sits on a car parked by a road in Guadalupe, Zacatecas, Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled their homes to escape violence; the Mexican Congress is poised to pass the country’s first law to help the internally displaced.
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 401 - Mexico’sC...jpg
  • A member of the municipality police patrols a public housing complex in Guadalupe, Zacatecas state, Mexico, on August 8, 2020. In Mexico, municipal police are amongst the security forces with the lowest salaries, which according to analysts, has contributed to their accepting bribes from criminal groups.
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 501 - Mexico’sC...jpg
  • A family that unsuccessfully looked for asylum in the U.S. poses for a portrait in their home in the outskirts of Juan Aldama, Zacatecas, Mexico. In their neighborhood, there were robberies, disappearances and street-corner drug sales. Then, one night in July 2019, gunmen ambushed and killed the police chief. Officers vanished from the streets. “My husband told me, ‘We have to get out of here,’ ” she said. “He told me, ‘Don’t you see there are no police? Don’t you see they’re frightened? Who will protect us?’ ”She had heard that the United States was offering asylum to Mexicans in danger. The family stuffed some clothes into backpacks and boarded a bus for the 600-mile trip to the Texas border. They returned home after they were asked to wait for the application in Mexico.
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 601 - Mexico’sC...jpg
  • View of Zacatecas from a hill. Shortly before López Obrador took office in December 2018, the CIA concluded that drug groups controlled about 20 percent of Mexican territory. The Mexican government denies it has lost control of any part of the country. But in a little-noticed passage in its security plan last year, it likened crime groups to insurgents, with “a level of organization, firepower and territorial control comparable to what armed political groups have had in other places.”
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 701 - Mexico’sC...jpg
  • Family members demanding justice hold a protest outside the attorney general’s office, thrusting aloft photos of their loved ones, who they say were disappeared by the attorney general’s masked police. “A criminal group took over the institutions of the state of Nayarit for six years,” said Rodrigo González Barrios, spokesman for the truth commission.
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 801 - Mexico’sC...jpg
  • Santiago Pérez, leader of a local group search, reassembles a brick holding a cross marking the mass grave in Nayarit, where he found the rests of his son along other 11 disappeared people. Disappearances became known as a unique kind of evil, denying families closure, leaving them forever tortured by the mystery of their loved ones’ fates.
    Luis Antonio Rojas - 901 - Mexico’sC...jpg
View: 25 | All