The rise of drug conflict in Guatemala - in pictures

Policemen put on synthetic gloves before conducting a raid of a home in Cobán, Guatemala Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

A woman waits for a bus as a soldier stands guard at a checkpoint in Cobán Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Public prosecutors inspect weapons found during a police and military raid at a farm in Cobán Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

A police officer stands guard next to a covered body found buried during a police and military raid at a farm Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Police investigators work at the site where weapons were seized during a police and military raid at a farm Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Morgue employees carry a body found on a ranch in northern Guatemala Photograph: Moises Castillo/AP

Weapons seized during a police and military raid Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Officers of the civil national police guard 336kg of seized cocaine Photograph: Johan Ordonez/AFP

Anti-drugs agents guard a drug shipment after its arrival in Guatemala City Photograph: Moises Castillo/AP

The uncle of a victim of a massacre waits to claim his nephew’s body from the morgue in San Benito Photograph: Moises Castillo/AP

Police stand guard next to suspected drug cartel members Photograph: Reuters

Air force helicopters carrying suspected members of a drug trafficking gang arrive in Guatemala City Photograph: Daniel Leclair/Reuters