Ghost pueblos of Mexico
A tour of a no-man's-land created by the Mexican drug war. People here call them the pueblos fantasmas -- the ghost pueblos.
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Abandoned home( Richard Fausset / Los Angeles Times )
A member of the Mexican federal police inspects an abandoned home during a tour of a ghost pueblo in Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero state, on Mexico's Pacific Coast. Extortion, threats and killings carried out by a group of heavily armed drug cartel members have emptied out more than 20 small villages in the mountains between the tourist resorts of Acapulco and Ixtapa.
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