Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, April 11, 2011

His name is Mario but he’s known as El Principe.
His name is Mario but he’s known as El Principe.
The drug cartels run the city. There is a war between them.
Lomas de Poleo is where they dump corpses: young pretty girls from the countryside who work at the local maquiladoras, foreign owned assembly factories where they get 5 dollars a day;
I fly into the murder city in the late afternoon, windy and dry: glimpses of the desert and the fence along the Rio Bravo, a huge white painted sign on the hill saying “Read the Bible”…