Sunday, October 29, 2017

AMERICA'S OPEN BORDERS: THE LA RAZA DRUG CARTELS EXECUTE 20 IN ONE DAY

Mexican Cartels Carry Out 20 Executions in One Day





MORELIA, Michoacan — Mexican authorities appear powerless to stop the cartel violence that continues to rage in one southern state. The fighting between rival criminal organizations left 20 people dead in a single day. 

The executions on Friday followed a week of gun battles that continue spreading terror in this state located west of Mexico City. Despite the large-scale gun battles, state authorities continue ignoring the violence. The government has yet to issue any security alerts. 
The violence began on Friday at 1:30 a.m. in the town of Buenavista Tomatlan where authorities collected the body of a man who had been tortured prior to his execution. 
By 3:20 a.m. in the city of Apatzingan, gunmen left a body behind near the municipal graveyard. The cartel left behind a message targeting “El Boto,” the local head of a criminal cell known as Los Viagras. On Thursday, in the same place, gunmen left behind another body. They left a threatening message on the body pointing to “El Gallito,” a local leader for Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). 
Soon after, authorities responded to the town of Antunez along the highway that connects Apatzingan with Cuatro Caminos. Responding officers found the body of Esteban Rubio Ruiz, the water director for Nueva Italia, who has also been linked to CJNG. In June, police arrested Rubio Ruiz’s brother, Daniel Rubio, and Ignacio “Cenizo” Renteria Andrade, the leader of the Knights Templar Cartel. 
In the town of Puruaran, police found the body of the president of the local committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Artemio Murillo Villanueva, and his secretary, Veronica Ambriz Carrillo. The pair had been kidnapped four days earlier. 
Authorities found the bodies of two men executed in the town of Chucandiro and three more bodies in the state capital of Morelia a short time later. The five victims presented multiple similarities. They all had their heads wrapped in bandages, their hands tied with a similar type of plastic, rope and were shot with a pistol. 
In Morelia, two gunmen died during a shootout with law enforcement. The two men had been trying to avoid a checkpoint and while escaping fired at law enforcement setting off the shootout. 
In the city of Zamora, authorities found the body of one man wrapped in a blanket. Gunmen left the body behind along with a message signed by the Nueva Familia Michoacana. The cartel warned they will continue “cleaning from kidnappers and traitors.” In the same city, a man was gunned down when he was trying to take an underage girl from a house. In the town of Tlazazalca, authorities found four bodies who had been tortured before being executed. According to the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office (PGJE), the bodies were identified as 23-year-old Fernando G, 32-year-old Jorge Luis A., 42-year-old Guadalupe L., and 44-year-old Antonio M. 
Along the highway that connects the city of Morelia with Patzcuaro, authorities found the bodies of two women and one man who have not been identified.
The violence in this state comes after 

Michoacan had 1,278 murders in the state for 

2016. That figure does not take into account 

the cases of kidnapped victims who have not 

returned and are presumed dead. 
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán.

OPEN BORDERS:

IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASSING ALONG

THE ILLEGALS' WELFARE AND CRIME COSTS TO THE AMERICAN

MIDDLE CLASS!



“That Washington-imposed policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign laborspikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate priceswidens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.” ---- NEIL MUNRO






JUDICIAL WATCH:

“The greatest criminal threat to the daily lives of American citizens are the Mexican drug cartels.”



“Mexican drug cartels are the “other” terrorist threat to America. Militant Islamists have the goal of destroying the United States. Mexican drug cartels are now accomplishing that mission – from within, every day, in virtually every community across this country.” JUDICIALWATCH

"An important factor in our long-term 
success requires securing our borders," 
Attorney General Sessions said.

THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS

Overall, in the 2017 Fiscal Year, officials revealed that a record-breaking 455,000 pounds plus of drugs had already been seized. In 2016, that number amounted to 443,000 pounds. The 2017 haul is worth an estimated $6.1 billion – BREITBART – JEFF SESSION’S DRUG BUST ON SAN DIEGO

Top Mexican Drug Lord Arrested in U.S.



The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of one of the top leaders in the Sonora region who was at one time part of the Sinaloa Cartel, but may have switched sides. While the man has been in U.S. custody for more than two weeks, federal authorities just announced his capture. It remains unclear if he surrendered.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, on October 11, Sajid Emilio “El Cadete” Quintero Navidad was arrested at the San Ysidro Port of Entry and was immediately taken before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jan Adlers who formally charged him and unsealed the indictment against him, thus making it public. It remains unclear why Quintero’s arrest was announced two weeks after he went before the court.
Quintero is the cousin of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, one of the kingpins responsible for the murder of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Agent Rafael “Kiki” Camarena. Caro Quintero had been serving a lengthy prison sentence in Mexico but was released before the U.S. was notified. The convicted drug lord is facing multiple charges connected to Camarena’s murder and to his trafficking activities.
The man known as El Cadete has also been described by prosecutors as a close partner of top Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. As Breitbart Texas’ Robert Arce reported, El Cadete is believed to have been operating as a regional cartel leader in Cajeme, Sonora, and is believed to have turned on the Sinaloa Cartel. Currently, the border states of Sonora and Chihuahua are seeing a spike in violence as various factions of the Sinaloa Cartel and their rivals continue to fight for territorial control.
Quintero’s arrest comes months after his ally turned rival, Damaso “Mini Lic” Lopez Serrano, surrendered himself in to authorities at a port of entry in California, Breitbart Texas reported. Damaso Lopez’ father, Damaso Lopez Nunez, also known as “El Licenciado” or “The Attorney,” made a move to take over the Sinaloa Cartel. Mexican authorities arrested Lopez before he succeeded.
Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and Stephen K. Bannon.  You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook.
Brandon Darby is managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Texas. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and Stephen K. Bannon. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at bdarby@breitbart.com.








Mexican Cartels Carry Out 20 Executions in One Day




MORELIA, Michoacan — Mexican authorities appear powerless to stop the cartel violence that continues to rage in one southern state. The fighting between rival criminal organizations left 20 people dead in a single day. 

The executions on Friday followed a week of gun battles that continue spreading terror in this state located west of Mexico City. Despite the large-scale gun battles, state authorities continue ignoring the violence. The government has yet to issue any security alerts. 
The violence began on Friday at 1:30 a.m. in the town of Buenavista Tomatlan where authorities collected the body of a man who had been tortured prior to his execution. 
By 3:20 a.m. in the city of Apatzingan, gunmen left a body behind near the municipal graveyard. The cartel left behind a message targeting “El Boto,” the local head of a criminal cell known as Los Viagras. On Thursday, in the same place, gunmen left behind another body. They left a threatening message on the body pointing to “El Gallito,” a local leader for Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). 
Soon after, authorities responded to the town of Antunez along the highway that connects Apatzingan with Cuatro Caminos. Responding officers found the body of Esteban Rubio Ruiz, the water director for Nueva Italia, who has also been linked to CJNG. In June, police arrested Rubio Ruiz’s brother, Daniel Rubio, and Ignacio “Cenizo” Renteria Andrade, the leader of the Knights Templar Cartel. 
In the town of Puruaran, police found the body of the president of the local committee of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), Artemio Murillo Villanueva, and his secretary, Veronica Ambriz Carrillo. The pair had been kidnapped four days earlier. 
Authorities found the bodies of two men executed in the town of Chucandiro and three more bodies in the state capital of Morelia a short time later. The five victims presented multiple similarities. They all had their heads wrapped in bandages, their hands tied with a similar type of plastic, rope and were shot with a pistol. 
In Morelia, two gunmen died during a shootout with law enforcement. The two men had been trying to avoid a checkpoint and while escaping fired at law enforcement setting off the shootout. 
In the city of Zamora, authorities found the body of one man wrapped in a blanket. Gunmen left the body behind along with a message signed by the Nueva Familia Michoacana. The cartel warned they will continue “cleaning from kidnappers and traitors.” In the same city, a man was gunned down when he was trying to take an underage girl from a house. In the town of Tlazazalca, authorities found four bodies who had been tortured before being executed. According to the Michoacan Attorney General’s Office (PGJE), the bodies were identified as 23-year-old Fernando G, 32-year-old Jorge Luis A., 42-year-old Guadalupe L., and 44-year-old Antonio M. 
Along the highway that connects the city of Morelia with Patzcuaro, authorities found the bodies of two women and one man who have not been identified.
The violence in this state comes after Michoacan had 1,278 murders in the state for 2016. That figure does not take into account the cases of kidnapped victims who have not returned and are presumed dead. 
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Nuevo León and other areas to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by Jose Luis Lara, a former leading member who helped start the Self-Defense Movement in Michoacán.

Adios, California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. 
The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.

Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.

Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. 
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.

Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. 
And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.


JUDICIAL WATCH

Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year



THE ENDLESSLY HISPANDERING DEMOCRAT PARTY funded by Wall Street’s biggest criminals says it is “ALL NEW”…. Meaning open borders to keep wages depressed and no regulation of plundering banks!
It’s Obama’s wet dream!

OPIOID ADDICTION IN AMERICA:
OBAMA AND HIS CRONIES IN BIG PHARMA AT WORK!
Who Deserves The Drug Cartels' MVP Award?
http://www.breitbart.com/texas/2017/10/27/d-c-builds-deportation-defense-fund-near-ms-13-hotbeds/

The growing list of those feeding the opioid crisis.

Michael Cutler

FrontPageMag.com, October 23, 2017
. . .
Heroin is not produced in the United States. Every gram of heroin present in the United States provides unequivocal evidence of a failure of border security because every gram of heroin was smuggled into the United States. Indeed, this is precisely a point that Attorney General Jeff Sessions made during his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 18, 2017 when he again raised the need to secure the U.S./Mexican border to protect American lives.

Immigration laws provide important weapons that can and must be used against transnational gangs, drug trafficking organizations and international terrorists and their organizations. This was made abundantly clear to me during my assignments with UID and then OCDETF. Yet this commonsense fact is willfully discounted and denied by politicians from both political parties and at all levels of government.
. . .
It is my contention that not unlike the way that DEA lost its authority to block the shipments of opiates when it is apparent that community safety is jeopardized, we have seen, for decades, parallel efforts to prevent the effective enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws and the securing of our nation’s borders in, what I have come to refer to as, Immigration Failure - By Design.

“Sanctuary cities” and now “sanctuary states” have crippled efforts to use immigration laws to combat violent transnational gangs, drug trafficking and human smuggling and even undermining national security.

On August 11, 2017 Fox News posted the incredible article, "Los Angeles Targets Contractors Who Might Work on Border Wall." The city of Los Angeles and the state of California have become sanctuaries and are now seeking to “blacklist” American companies that accept contracts from the federal government -- particularly when such companies have worked to help stem the flood of heroin and other dangerous drugs into the United States along with aliens engaged in criminal and/or terror-related activities.
. . .
Adios, California
A fifth-generation Californian laments his state’s ongoing economic collapse.
By Steve Baldwin
American Spectator, October 19, 2017
What’s clear is that the producers are leaving the state and the takers are coming in. Many of the takers are illegal aliens, now estimated to number over 2.6 million. 
The Federation for American Immigration Reform estimates that California spends $22 billion on government services for illegal aliens, including welfare, education, Medicaid, and criminal justice system costs. Liberals claim they more than make that up with taxes paid, but that’s simply not true. It’s not even close. FAIR estimates illegal aliens in California contribute only $1.21 billion in tax revenue, which means they cost California $20.6 billion, or at least $1,800 per household.

Nonetheless, open border advocates, such as Facebook Chairman Mark Zuckerberg, claim illegal aliens are a net benefit to California with little evidence to support such an assertion. As the Center for Immigration Studies has documented, the vast majority of illegals are poor, uneducated, and with few skills. How does accepting millions of illegal aliens and then granting them access to dozens of welfare programs benefit California’s economy? If illegal aliens were contributing to the economy in any meaningful way, California, with its 2.6 million illegal aliens, would be booming.

Furthermore, the complexion of illegal aliens has changed with far more on welfare and committing crimes than those who entered the country in the 1980s. 
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens. Granted, those statistics are old, but if you talk to any California law enforcement officer, they will tell you it’s much worse today. The problem is that the Brown administration will not release any statewide data on illegal alien crimes. That would be insensitive. And now that California has declared itself a “sanctuary state,” there is little doubt this sends a message south of the border that will further escalate illegal immigration into the state.

Indeed, California goes out of its way to attract illegal aliens. The state has even created government programs that cater exclusively to illegal aliens. For example, the State Department of Motor Vehicles has offices that only process driver licenses for illegal aliens. With over a million illegal aliens now driving in California, the state felt compelled to help them avoid the long lines the rest of us must endure at the DMV. 
And just recently, the state-funded University of California system announced it will spend $27 million on financial aid for illegal aliens. They’ve even taken out radio spots on stations all along the border, just to make sure other potential illegal border crossers hear about this program. I can’t afford college education for all my four sons, but my taxes will pay for illegals to get a college education.



WALL STREET TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE: DIE YOUNG… your company pension dies with you!
OPIOID AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION KILLS OF MIDDLE AMERICA

SOARING POVERTY AND DRUG ADDICTION UNDER OBAMA
"These figures present a scathing indictment of the social order that prevails in America, the world’s wealthiest country, whose government proclaims itself to be the globe’s leading democracy. They are just one manifestation of the human toll taken by the vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty. 





D.C. Builds Deportation Defense Fund near MS-13 Hotbeds


District officials in Washington, D.C. designated a legal defense fund aimed at benefiting illegal aliens and their families after being detained for deportation. The move comes after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement stepped up operations in sanctuary cities.

The establishment of the fund was announced by D.C. Councilman David Grosso, who claimed to local news outlets that the District earmarked $500,000 for legal services to help those targeted during ICE raids.
The action by D.C. officials comes as a response to increased operations targeting illegal immigrants in jurisdictions calling themselves sanctuary cities. The term refers to the intentional lack of cooperation between local law enforcement and federal authorities for those incarcerated and in the country illegally. The stepped-up enforcement operations are being carried out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Baltimore. During a recent raid in Washington, D.C., authorities detained 14 illegal immigrants, some of them had prior felony and misdemeanor convictions.
During his comments made to local TV stations, Grosso said the ICE raids are an assault on local communities and urged anyone affected to contact his office for legal assistance. He also claimed the $500,000 fund was an initial allotment and more should be put into the effort.
“I think if people commit criminal acts they should be held accountable for that and they should be arrested,” he said in the TV interview. “That doesn’t mean that we should treat somebody who’s undocumented different than somebody who’s here legally and who is a citizen of the United States.”
The efforts to block immigration enforcement in D.C. come while the District and surrounding areas are deeply affected by a rapid expansion of MS-13 gang members– often leading to deadly results. According to local news outlets, law enforcement agencies are seeing a spike in MS-13 murders.
In 2009, the number of MS-13 gang members operating in Northern Virginia was believed to be around 3,000, that figure has reached an estimated 5,000 recently.
The MS-13 gang or, “La Mara Salvatrucha”, as they are known on the street, are made up primarily of illegal immigrants from El Salvador, with some also coming from Honduras and Guatemala. Gang experts consulted by Breitbart Texas believe the resurgence was fueled in part by the recent border surges that overwhelmed the detention capabilities of immigration authorities and set off a humanitarian crisis. One of the hot topics during that time was the increased number of underage illegal aliens arriving alone, referred to as unaccompanied minors.
In some cases, the minors were already influenced by the organization, arriving with a gang mentality. The phenomenon occurs with children born into multigenerational gangs; they tend to gravitate to each other because of cultural and language reasons–knowing no other lifestyle.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.)


Inside a neighborhood scarred by drugs and despair: Life on the tough streets of Pablo Escobar's hometown where drug addicts and prostitutes struggle to survive

It is one of Colombia's most dangerous neighborhoods, a crowded and dilapidated crush of drug dealers, prostitutes and the homeless fight for survival. 
But despite the poverty and despair of Barrio Triste - Sad Neighborhood - photographer Juan Arredondo found glimmers of hope among the people who call it home. 
For three years, the 35-year-old photographer has documented life in Medellín, once the most dangerous city in the world, where drug lords and paramilitary groups fight for power. 
Survival: A homeless man cooks over an open fire made from bits of wood found on the street
Survival: A homeless man cooks over an open fire made from bits of wood found on the street
Addicts: Hugo, 33, is one of many drug users who gather in deserted warehouses to smoke crack
Addicts: Hugo, 33, is one of many drug users who gather in deserted warehouses to smoke crack
Trade: The neighborhood has become a place to trade drugs
Trade: The neighborhood has become a place to trade drugs
Refuge: A sex worker holds her daughter as she makes their meal in a rented hotel room
Refuge: A sex worker holds her daughter as she makes their meal in a rented hotel room
He became fascinated with Barrio Triste after meeting a mother-of-four who sought refuge in the neighborhood after a paramilitary group killed her husband. 
As Medellín, the hometown of infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, cleaned up its act, Barrio Triste remained a battleground for other dealers. 
It was once named the Sacred Heart of Jesus, but now mechanics and sex workers trade on its grease-stained streets, and turn to paramilitary group Los Convivir for protection. 
But despite the poverty and crime, Arredondo remains optimistic for its future. 
'Barrio Triste serves a window to the violent past that once plagued the city of Medellín. It reminds me of a past I left behind and the hardship the citizens of this city and this country have endured over many years,' he said.
Tragedy: A family say goodbye to a child placed in a tiny coffin
Tragedy: A family say goodbye to a child placed in a tiny coffin
Oppressive: It make look uninviting but hotel Rest Stop of the Traveler offers cheap shelter to those displaced by violence
Oppressive: It make look uninviting but hotel Rest Stop of the Traveler offers cheap shelter to those displaced by violence
Despair: Orejas, 21, has been living on the streets of Barrio Triste since running away when he was 12
Despair: Orejas, 21, has been living on the streets of Barrio Triste since running away when he was 12
Displaced: With nowhere else to go, this drunk is forced to sleep on the sidewalk
Displaced: With nowhere else to go, this drunk is forced to sleep on the sidewalk
Faith: A cathedral dominates the dilapidated neighborhood
Faith: A cathedral dominates the dilapidated neighborhood
Icon: A painting of Sacred Heart of Jesus, the old name of the town, hangs in a workshop
Icon: A painting of Sacred Heart of Jesus, the old name of the town, hangs in a workshop
Worn: Pieces of metal and wire from the mechanics' shops are encrusted in the sidewalk
Worn: Pieces of metal and wire from the mechanics' shops are encrusted in the sidewalk
Savior: A large painting of Jesus is carried through the bustling streets
Savior: A large painting of Jesus is carried through the bustling streets
Down time: Workers play parqu during an afternoon break
Down time: Workers play parqu during an afternoon break
Boxed in: A framed photo of a wedding day hangs on the flimsy walls of this man's hut
Boxed in: A framed photo of a wedding day hangs on the flimsy walls of this man's hut
Home: Carmen Salgado, 67, has been living is this room for 17 years. She pays $6.50 a day in rent
Home: Carmen Salgado, 67, has been living is this room for 17 years. She pays $6.50 a day in rent
Trapped: A pregnant woman smokes marijuana from the back yard of a repair shop
Trapped: A pregnant woman smokes marijuana from the back yard of a repair shop
Hardship: A man who has lost both hands and one leg showers in the ruins of a house
Hardship: A man who has lost both hands and one leg showers in the ruins of a house
Crowded: Laundry hangs over the bed in a tiny room shared by this family
Crowded: Laundry hangs over the bed in a tiny room shared by this family
Cramped: Eight-year-old Jenny shares this rented room with her four brothers, mother and step-father
Cramped: Eight-year-old Jenny shares this rented room with her four brothers, mother and step-father
Comfort: A mother hugs one of her children in their tiny home
Comfort: A mother hugs one of her children in their tiny home
Motor city: By day mechanics and car workshops are the main trade
Motor city: By day mechanics and car workshops are the main trade
Homeless: Men bathe in the streets among street vendors and traffic
Homeless: Men bathe in the streets among street vendors and traffic
Break: A mechanic rests inside a bus to escape the heat of the afternoon
Break: A mechanic rests inside a bus to escape the heat of the afternoon
Pit stop: A worker rests in a local bar in Barrio Triste
Pit stop: A worker rests in a local bar in Barrio Triste
Celebration: A pig is slaughtered for a traditional New Year's Eve party
Celebration: A pig is slaughtered for a traditional New Year's Eve party
Deprived: Homeless teenagers gather in a sewage tunnel that runs under the neighborhood
Deprived: Homeless teenagers gather in a sewage tunnel that runs under the neighborhood
Youthful: Despite the despair, children still play happily on a rooftop
Youthful: Despite the despair, children still play happily on a rooftop
Grime: Workers repair vending carts on the street
Grime: Workers repair vending carts on the street
Broken: Barrio Triste lives up to its name as Sad Neighborhood but Juan Arredondo says there is hope
Broken: Barrio Triste lives up to its name as Sad Neighborhood but Juan Arredondo says there is hope


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