Relatives of disappeared people join a march led by Mexican poet Javier Sicilia in TorreonPhotograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersA woman holds a cardboard figure after a rally led by Mexican poet Javier Sicilia to support victims of feminicides (female murders), in Ciudad Juarez Photograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersResidents hold up cardboard figures during a march in support of the peaceful procession led by Javier Sicilia in downtown ChihuahuaPhotograph: Tomas Bravo/Reuters
A relative of a disappeared man takes part in the peaceful protest in Torreon Photograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersYoung men take part in the protest in TorreonPhotograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersA woman prays next to pink crosses erected in memory of some of the women murdered since 1993, in Ciudad Juarez Photograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersTransit policemen look at the slain bodies of two of their colleagues at a crime scene in Monterrey in January Photograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersFormer gang members and drug addicts pray with nuns from a Catholic shelter in a low-income neighbourhood in Monterrey. In just four years, Monterrey, a manufacturing city of 4 million people has gone from being a model for developing economies to a symbol of Mexico's drug war chaos, sucked down into a dark spiral of gangland killings, violent crime and growing lawlessnessPhotograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersPeople stand next to a patrol car at a crime scene where two men were gunned down by unknown assailants on the outskirts of Ciudad Juarez Photograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersA woman argues with a policeman during a candlelight vigil held as a tribute to slain security guards at Cafe Iguana bar in downtown Monterrey in MayPhotograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersMembers of a forensic team prepare to remove the slain body of a man after a drive-by shooting in the municipality of ApodacaPhotograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersA police detective stands guard at a crime scene in MonterreyPhotograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersA man takes part in a demonstration against violence in MonterreyPhotograph: Tomas Bravo/ReutersPeople take part in a peaceful demonstration outside the Cafe Iguana bar in downtown Monterrey in May, in memory of four people killed by gunmen at the barPhotograph: Tomas Bravo/Reuters
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