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Topic: Mexican Drug War

Vigilantes of the Autodefensa movement celebrate the "liberation" of a town in the Mexican state of Michoacán, in a scene from "Cartel Land."

Road trip to the drug war

Andrew O'Hehir
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Ioan Grillo - GlobalPost
A federal police looks for the assigned weapon that corresponds to the rural police's identification card before the start of a ceremony in Tepalcatepec, Mexico, Saturday, May 10, 2014. (Associated Press)

Ioan Grillo - GlobalPost

We got high; thousands died

Andrew O'Hehir
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Prachi Gupta
Two men believed to be bodyguards of the alleged leader of the Gulf drug cartel, Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sanchez, aka "El Coss." (AP/Dario Lopez-Mills)

Kristen Gwynne

Alex Kane
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Rebecca Solnit
An image of Pope Benedict XVI is taped to a wall, topped with a Vatican-colored bow, in Leon, Mexico, Thursday March 22, 2012 (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Cartels make peace for pope

Carmen Garcia
Stephanie Sigman in "Miss Bala"

The beauty queen and the drug lord

Andrew O'Hehir
A U.S. Border Patrol agent walks along the U.S./Mexico border fence near San Diego. (AP/Lenny Ignelzi)

Alex Pareene
Joaquin Guzman-Loera, aka "El Chapo," and Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla (AP/Reuters)

A narco's case against the U.S.

Michelle García
Rifles, guns, hand grenades, uniforms of the Mexican navy and the U.S. Army, cartridges and cocaine were seized in an operation against the Zetas drug cartel in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon in the north of Mexico. (Jorge Lopez / Reuters)

The drug war next door

Laura Miller
A masked member of Anonymous demands the release of a compatriot who the hacker collective claims was kidnapped by a Mexican drug cartel. (YouTube/MrAnonymousguyfawkes)

Anonymous takes on Mexican drug cartel

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