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Sept. 18, 2024
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At the city cemetery called San Rafael, bodies of unidentified or unclaimed victims are buried separately in a communal grave.
(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)From 2007 to 2013 nearly 11,000 people were killed in Juarez, Mexico, many in violence touched off by warring drug cartels. In 2008 and 2009, Times photographer Don Bartletti spent several weeks documenting the violence during a time when Juarez was known as the “murder capital of Mexico.”
Heavily armed Mexican army troops patrol Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in an open pickup truck. Soldiers speed through the city in teams of two trucks assisting local law enforcement with emergencies as varied as traffic accidents and drug cartel assassinations.
(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)A coroner’s worker in Ciudad Juarez removes the body of a 12-year-old girl from a vehicle in which she and her father were killed in a hail of bullets.
(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)Coroners workers Raymundo Grado, left, and Enrique Lopez remove the bodies of shooting victims from the Tierra Nueva neighborhood.
(Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)Sept. 18, 2024