TIJUANA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MX - JUNE 12 , 2009: 18 year-old Maria Arias Medina, with a large La Santa Muerte tattoo on her back, holds her son as they look towards the U.S., the old fence and the new border fence in Tijuana's notorious Colonia...
APRIL 23, 2011 - MC’ALLEN TEXAS: Border Patrol officers inspect the inside of a van filled with roughly 800 pounds of Marihuana after a car chase that included assistance from a Helicopter unit of the Office of Air and Marine. Authorities were able to...
TIJUANA, MEXICO: MARCH 9, 2009: Federal police officers take a suspect into custody after a shooting in Tijuana, Mexico, March 9, 2009. Tijuana is one of the major battlegrounds of the cartels in the ongoing Mexico Drug War, which has taken the lives of over...
MEXICO CITY, MX - JULY 01, 2009: Thousands of devotees pray together as they to attend a mass for Santa Muerte “The saint of Holy Death” outside the shrine in Teppito, Mexico City July 1,2009. Tepito, a run-down area in the capital’s historic...
MEXICO CITY, MX - JUNE 30, 2009: An alter of the Santa Muerte “The saint of Holy Death” in the house where Martha Julieta Sánchez Reyes live with about 25 others people, all the adults in the house said they are...
MEXICO CITY, MX - JUNE 29, 2009: Luis Demetrio Perez Diaz a street vender at Tepito market and a devotee ot the Santa Muerte “The saint of Holy Death” Has a cigar at his private alter Mexico City July 1,2009. Mr....
APATIZNGAN, MEXICO APRIL 26, 2010: A house burned down and full of bullet holes stands untouched for almost two years after a deadly fire fight of members of La Familia that were occupying the house and Mexican soldiers took place at the site. Apatzingan...
CULIACAN, SINALOA- MEXICO - MARCH 6, 2009: Visitors attending the shrine of Malverde March 6, 2009. With Mexico's drug war spinning out of control the Narco culture is becoming more and moremain stream and the shrine draws people of all walks of life. Followers...
TULTITLAN, MEXICO: OCTOBER 25, 2009: Devotees of Santa Muerte pray during a Sunday mass at the church of “Santa Muerte International” in Tultitlán, State of Mexico, Just outside Mexico City. In the center of the court yard of the church stands the biggest Santa...
CULIACAN, MEXICO: OCTOBER 18, 2009: Inside the main Malverde shrine of Culiacan, Sinaloa. Jesús Malverde, sometimes known as the "narco-saint", is a folklore hero in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. He is celebrated as a folk saint by some in Mexico and the United...