Guadalajara

A woman wearing a white shirt signs a black silhouette during a demonstration for mothers of enforced disappearances

In Mexico, the unending drug war takes its toll with thousands of disappearances 

Conflict & Justice

A report issued on July 14 by Mexico’s National Search Commission said 73,218 people have been confirmed missing since 1964, and almost all of them — 71,678 — since 2006 when organized crime and drug-trafficking violence in the country began to increase.

Men stand next to the wreckage of a tractor-trailer set ablaze by members of a drug cartel in Guadalajara May 1, 2015.

A heavily armed ‘paramilitary’ cartel unleashes violence in Mexico’s second-biggest city

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Loretta Lopez, teen winner of Scholastic Writing Award

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Patricia Riggen