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Luis Antonio Rojas, 3er premio FIDA, 2021

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  • MEXICO CITY, MEXICO - MARCH 8, 2020: Women gather around a fire made out of wood barriers, aerosol spray cans, banners and bras at the plaza of the Zocalo on International Women's Day. The annual demonstration intensified and turned into a bigger movement against gender-based violence amid an increase in killings of women and girls, giving hope by reaching a turning point for women's right in Mexico.
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  • Unaccompanied minor migrants from Honduras, works out at the backyard of the unaccompanied minors section at La 72 shelter, in Tenosique, Tabasco, Mexico. The number of Central American unaccompanied minors apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border or asking for asylum in Mexico has increased dramatically in recent years, exposing new challenges for both governments.
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  • A Central American migrant goes over a fence near the port of entry at El Ceibo in the town of Tenosique, Tabasco state, Mexico, on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. Hundreds of U.S.-bound Honduran migrants who had entered Guatemala in a caravan without registering were being bused back to their country's border by authorities who met them with a large roadblock.
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  • An attendee walks through sparks flying from a "little bull" firework sculpture during the National Pyrotechnic Festival parade in Tultepec, Mexico state, Mexico. Tultepec, a municipality of about 130,000 people, is famed for small workshops that produce many of the fireworks used on holidays throughout the region.
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  • 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.
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  • SAN FERNANDO, TAMAULIPAS, MEXICO - OCTOBER 18, 2020:  Anabel Garza Rivera,33, and Luciano Leal Vela, 38, kneel before the coffin of their murdered son sourrounded by flower arrangements and his favourite cothing 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. 
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.”
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Alex (13), right, and other children stand during a Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC-PF) community police force gun training presentation in the town of Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico. Alex had to stop attending high school in the neighbor town of Hueycantenango due to the presence of drug cartel Los Ardillos. He then joined the communities police along his father.
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  • Ricardo Mendoza, a community police officer, carries the coffin of his murdered fifteen-year-old nephew, Israel Mendoza, in a church of Alcozacán, Guerrero State, Mexico. On January 17th, Drug cartel Los Ardillos brutally murdered 10 indigenous musicians that played at party outside the CRAC-PF territory, where they belong to.
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  • A door is riddled by bullet holes in Titila, a town near Ayahualtempa, Guerrero, that has been abandoned because of violence. Murders in Mexico rose to a new record in 2019, the first full year of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's presidency, posing a challenge to the popular leader to make good on a campaign promise of reducing violence.
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  • Santos prepares Alex's gun before going for a walk at the end of his father's shift in their home in Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico. Alex had to stop attending high school in the neighbor town of Hueycantenango due to the presence of drug cartel Los Ardillos. He then joined the communities police along his father.
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  • FEBRUARY 4: Alex (13) stands in his family store while he ties a bandana to cover his face for a Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC-PF) community police force gun training presentation held due to increased violence in the community in the town of Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico. Alex had to stop attending high school in the neighbor town of Hueycantenango due to the presence of drug cartel Los Ardillos. He then joined the communities police along his father.
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  • FEBRUARY 4: Young kids play basketball at night after a Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC-PF) community police force gun training presentation in the town of Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico.
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  • JANUARY 27: Bernardino Sánchez, founder of the Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC-PF) community police force, watches her younger daughter sleep while his wife, Adelo Virgeño, prepares tortillas in their home in Rincón de Chautla, Guerrero state, Mexico. Murders in Mexico rose to a new record in 2019, the first full year of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's presidency, posing a challenge to the popular leader to make good on a campaign promise of reducing violence.
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  • JANUARY 27: A child holds a mock rifles as he observes a Regional Coordinator of Community Authorities (CRAC-PF) community police force gun training presentation held due to increased violence in the community in the town of Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico. The attacks of the drug cartel Los Ardillos have cornered residents of Ayahualtempa and near by communities to integrate their children into the Community Police to defend their towns.
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  • FEBRUARY 5: Santos has breakfast along her wife Justina at their home in Ayahualtempa, Guerrero state, Mexico. Their sons Alex (13) and Marvin (10) have been training along him and the community police to defend their town from drug cartel Los ardillos.
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