BURBANK, CA - APRIL 8, 2010: Alfredo Rios Know by his stage name “El Kommander” walks down a street in Burbank California just outside his Agent and Music producers studio, Twins Enterprises. El Kommander is one of the hottest Narco Corrido singer/composers in the industry...
JUAREZ, MEXICO: AUGUST 6, 2009 - Women puts flour to soak up blood on the pavement, where a young man was murdered August 6, 2009, Ciudad Juarez. The violence generated by the war of the drug cartels for control of drug routes translated into...
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MX - APRIL 14, 2010: An actor watches a scene-in-progress on the film set of Baja Films Production "The Seagulls Don't Fly Alone." Oscar, Lopez 23 from San Diego, was born into the Tijuana-based family film business, Baja Films. In 2005...
TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MX - JUNE 25 , 2009: Scenes being filmed on the set of Baja Films Production of "Narco Jr." , in a house in Tijuana on June 25, 2009. Baja Films is a leading production company specializing in low budget...
JUAREZ, MEXICO: DEC. 18, 2008- Strip club Hollywood, downtown Jaurez. With American sex tourism on the decline due to the dramatic increase in murder and violence, the few remaining strip clubs have become common Narco hangouts. With approx. 1,600 deaths in 2008, Jaurez is...
JUAREZ, MEXICO: NOV. 11, 2008 - Police stand next to a body of an unnamed street vendor/ entertainer found gagged, tied and murdered under a bridge. Typically the police are slow to respond to a crime and quick to leave the scene, the less time...
JUAREZ, MEXICO: NOV. 13, 2008 - The casket of murdered Police Officer David Miranda Ramirez, 36, is carried by fellow Police at his funeral. The border city of Juárez (population: 1.5 million) is a slaughterhouse ruled by drug lords where the death toll this year...
JUAREZ, MEXICO: NOV. 13, 2008 - Crime scene where El Diario Newspaper Crime Reporter Armando Rodriquez was murdered outside his home while warming up his car. Armando Rodriquez was a crime reporter for El Diario for 10 years. Mexico has become one of the world's...
CULIACAN, MEXICO: OCTOBER 16, 2009: Shopkeeper and young window shoppers at a store called "Marco" in the downtown center of Culiacan, Sinaloa. Expensive -- bling-bling-- style clothing, jewelry and accessories have become a major peice of the bourgeoning narco sub-culture and many stores...
TIJUANA, MEXICO: MARCH 11, 2009: A junkie stands near one of the many heroin shooting galleries where addicts live and shoot near the U.S border in Tijuana, Mexico on March 11, 2009. The border canal has become a regular spot for junkies to use Heroin,...