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Youth in Ciudad Juarez(122 images)

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  • A young boy keeps warm by a fire in the Noveno Barrio, one of the oldest maquila worker settlements in the city.
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  • From left, Liz and Pollo try to get their new born baby girl to stop crying. Pollo and his extended family moved from their old neighborhood after he had been threatened. Now he is working in a maquila making 500 pesos per day.
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  • Pollo stares out into the backyard and contemplates his new life in his new neighborhood.
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  • A young boy tries on a bufanda to keep warm.
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  • A photograph of Juan, who was shot and then stoned to death.
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  • Liz and her little brother prepare bean and tortillas for dinner at their parents home in Ciudad Juarez.
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  • "Pollo" catches the bus to work in the maquila where he earns about 50 USD per day.
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  • Personnel carriers line up to pick up workers for the first shift of the day in Ciudad Juarez.
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  • "Pollo" heads off to work at 5 am to catch a bus to the factory.
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  • A maquiladora worker family has dinner at their home.
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  • A family decorated their home in this predominately factory worker neighborhood on the fringes of the city. Many homes are abandoned, as hundreds of thousands have fled the city due to violence and lack of jobs. The developments were build by tycoons who were responsible for bringing the factories to the region while they were in government office. They purchased thousands of hectares of land anticipating the industrial expansion. Low wages and expensive transit costs have made these communities very isolated from the rest of the city infrastructure. The region is now mostly controlled by the Sinaloa cartel.
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  • A family decorated their home in this predominately factory worker neighborhood on the fringes of the city. Many homes are abandoned, as hundreds of thousands have fled the city due to violence and lack of jobs. The developments were build by tycoons who were responsible for bringing the factories to the region while they were in government office. They purchased thousands of hectares of land anticipating the industrial expansion. Low wages and expensive transit costs have made these communities very isolated from the rest of the city infrastructure. The region is now mostly controlled by the Sinaloa cartel.
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  • Liz, 18, tries to keep her baby girl warm at her parents house in Ciudad Juarez.
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  • A family decorated their home in this predominately factory worker neighborhood on the fringes of the city. Many homes are abandoned, as hundreds of thousands have fled the city due to violence and lack of jobs. The developments were build by tycoons who were responsible for bringing the factories to the region while they were in government office. They purchased thousands of hectares of land anticipating the industrial expansion. Low wages and expensive transit costs have made these communities very isolated from the rest of the city infrastructure. The region is now mostly controlled by the Sinaloa cartel.
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  • Many homes are abandoned, as hundreds of thousands have fled the city due to violence and lack of jobs. The developments were build by tycoons who were responsible for bringing the factories to the region while they were in government office. They purchased thousands of hectares of land anticipating the industrial expansion. Low wages and expensive transit costs have made these communities very isolated from the rest of the city infrastructure. The region is now mostly controlled by the Sinaloa cartel.
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  • Fish soup.
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  • Noveno's get stoned and drunk at a friend's house. The Noveno's have suffered three murders in the last year because of conflicts between rival gangs who were extorting and robbing in their neighborhood. Most of the gang never made it to middle school because the cost of tuition was too high.
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  • Teenagers watch television and drink beer at a friend's house in the Diaz Ordaz colonia.
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  • Denise and her boyfriend hang out at a house party.
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  • A young couple hang out at a house party in the Diaz Ordaz colonia.
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  • Denise and her boyfriend hang out at a house party.
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  • Noveno's get stoned and drunk at a friend's house. The Noveno's have suffered three murders in the last year because of conflicts between rival gangs who were extorting and robbing in their neighborhood. Most of the gang never made it to middle school because the cost of tuition was too high.
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  • Noveno's get stoned and drunk at a friend's house. The Noveno's have suffered three murders in the last year because of conflicts between rival gangs who were extorting and robbing in their neighborhood. Most of the gang never made it to middle school because the cost of tuition was too high.
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  • Denise watches lights go by outside the back window of a van. Her family is from Mexico City and moved to Juarez because of domestic violence in the family. Now the family has considered returning because of violence in Juarez.
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  • Noveno's get stoned at a friend's house. The Noveno's have suffered three murders in the last year because of conflicts between rival gangs who were extorting and robbing in their neighborhood. Most of the gang never made it to middle school because the cost of tuition was too high.
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