Translated by Valor for Borderland Beat Former President Felipe Calderón declared the war against drug trafficking on December 11, 2006, in Mexico, leaving an outcome calculated with over 27,000 people disappeared, 150,000 dead, and 280,000 displaced from their home. December 11, 2016, marked the 10 year anniversary of Mexico's War on Drugs.  |
Former President Felipe Calderón watches a military vehicle on top of a pile of weapons confiscated in Ciudad Juárez. The PANista unleashed the war on drugs on December 11, 2006. Photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo |
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In this archived photo of January 12, 2014, men belonging to the autodefensas of Michoacán travel on board a truck full of sandbags as they try to expel alleged members of the Knights Templar Cartel from the city of Nueva Italia, México. Photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo |
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In this photo from October 9, 2009, the corpse of an unidentified man beaten and mutilated hangs from his neck under a bridge on the old road Rosarito, in Tijuana. Photo: AP / Guillermo Arias |
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Image from August 16, 2011, shows the bodies of two men shot dead next to the Caleta Beach in Acapulco. Photo: AP / Bernandino Hernández |
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In this photo from January 16, 2014, a child helps his father to arrange the weapons at a checkpoint established by the autodefensas of Michoacán in Tancitaro. Photo: AP / Felix Márquez |
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People paint sketches of bodies as part of a memorial for the dead on the death anniversary of the war on drugs at the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City. Photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell |
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In this photo from September 6, 2014, a soldier enters a house riddled with bullets, labeled with the initials CDG for the Gulf Cartel and Z for the Zetas, in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. Photo: AP / Eduardo Verdugo |
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In this photo from May 6, 2011, the hand of a corpse hangs from a bed with a syringe, in an improvised morgue inside a container in Durango. Photo: AP / Dario López-Mills |
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In this archived photo of April 16, 2016, soldiers salute Mexico’s Secretary of Defense, General Salvador Cienfuegos, at the No. 1 military camp in Mexico City. Photo: AP / Marco Ugarte |