Contemporary Issues, 3rd prize
Drug Cartel's War
Pedro Pardo
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse
08 January, 2011
A forensic scientist inspects the scene where six corpses were found inside a taxi in Acapulco, on 8 January—a day on which 25 different bodies, 15 of them decapitated, were found around the city.
Pedro Pardo
Pedro Pardo was born in Puebla in 1974, and studied graphic design at the Insituto de Artes Visuales in Puebla. He did a number of courses in photography and journalism, inclu...
Acapulco, Mexico
A forensic scientist inspects the scene where six corpses were found inside a taxi in Acapulco, on 8 January—a day on which 25 different bodies, 15 of them decapitated, were found around the city. Acapulco, the Mexican seaside resort much favored by the 1960s jetset, has become a battleground in the wars between drug cartels that are afflicting the country. Nightclubs are closing, and tourists staying away, as the violence escalates.
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