Over the years we’ve posted several photo sets with the theme drugs. The Gang Wars In Mexico, The Latin American Drug Wars and the War On Drugs In Rio De Janeiro. In that time nothing much has changed. Half of Mexico is still run by the drug cartels, people still keep dying from Brazil to the Copa Cabana and drugs is still big big business.
Soldiers patrol a neighborhood in San Fernando, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, December 20, 2011. Mexico's Defense Ministry has deployed hundreds of soldiers consisting of intelligence units, mobile checkpoints and patrols, to curb the violence in San Fernando and its outskirts, caused by months of bloody gunbattles and turf wars between the Gulf cartel and their former Zetas armed wing, reported local media. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
An image of La Santa Muerte (The Saint of Death) lies in a pool of blood at a crime scene in Acapulco February 18, 2011. Heavily armed groups shot at least a dozen people, six taxi drivers among them, burned about 18 vehicles, a house and a business and carried out shooutouts in different parts of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco early Friday, according to local media. REUTERS/Stringer
Soldiers stand in formation as marijuana and other drugs are being incinerated at a military base in Ciudad Juarez March 2, 2011. According to local media, 1500 kg of drugs, seized in several operations throughout the last months, were destroyed. REUTERS/Gael Gonzalez
A person walks past a glass door damaged by bullets at the police headquarters where Marisol Valles Garcia used to work as the police chief, in Praxedis G. Guerrero March 7, 2011. The 20-year-old female student who became the police chief in one of Mexico's most dangerous drug war towns was fired by the mayor on Monday for not showing up to work after Mexican media reported she received death threats. Marisol Valles, a criminology student in Mexico's violent city of Ciudad Juarez, took charge of the police force in the neighboring municipality of Praxedis G. Guerrero near El Paso, Texas in October, sparking intense media attention after few candidates dared to apply for the dangerous job. REUTERS/Gael Gonzalez
Suspect Jesus Cardenas Perez, alias ?El Manos,? is presented to the media by the Federal Police in Mexico City May 2, 2011. According to the Federal Police, Cardenas Perez is accused of killing seven people, including Juan Francisco Sicilia, the son of Mexican poet Javier Sicilia, who was found dead along with six others inside a car on March 28, 2011 in Morelos. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
People stand next to a mock crime scene during a peaceful demonstration outside the Cafe Iguana bar in downtown Monterrey May 26, 2011, in memory of four people killed by gunmen at the bar. Residents staged the demonstration as a tribute to the four men, two of them security guards, killed by gunmen last Sunday outside the popular Cafe Iguana bar in the tourist area known as Barrio Antiguo, local media reported. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
Seized weapons were shown during a presentation of 36 members of the criminal organization La Familia Michoacana, by the Federal Police in Mexico City May 28, 2011. According to the Federal Police these people were arrested in Apatzingan, Michoacan, after a confrontation in which 11 criminals were killed, in this arrest were seized dozens of rifles, one Barret 50 caliber rifle and 21,000 cartridges. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
Suspects are lined up as weapons are displayed to the media by the Mexican Navy in Mexico City June 9, 2011. According to the Mexican Navy, 204 rifles, 11 guns, 15 hand grenades, uniforms of the Mexican navy and of the U.S. army, over 29,000 cartridges and over 200 kg (441 pounds) of cocaine and were seized in an operation against the Zetas drug cartel in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon in the north of Mexico. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
A girl looks at blood stains and a graffiti left by gunmen at a crime scene in Monterrey June 15, 2011. Hitmen killed three men at the scene and tried to set them on fire on Wednesday at the middle class neighbourhood, local media reported. The graffiti reads: These are Z, kindly CDG, referring to rival drug cartels, the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
Brazilian Navy soldiers in an armoured vehicle prepare for an operation against drug dealers at Mangueira slum in Rio de Janeiro June 19, 2011. Rio de Janeiro's security forces started a big operation in Mangueira slum to base a peacekeeping unit near Maracana Stadium. It is the last favela, located near Maracana Stadium, which was introduced to the peace program to ensure the security of the 2014 World Cup. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes
An army helicopter casts a shadow over parts of the biggest marijuana plantation found in Mexico, in San Quintin, about 350 km (220 miles) away from Tijuana, July 13, 2011. Mexican soldiers discovered the plantation in a remote desert surrounded by cactuses, a top army officer said on Thursday. Soldiers patrolling the area found 300 acres (120 hectares) of pot plants being tended by dozens of men on Tuesday, said General Alfonso Duarte. Picture taken July 13, 2011. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
A soldier patrols the streets onboard a military vehicle in San Fernando, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, December 20, 2011. Mexico's Defense Ministry has deployed hundreds of soldiers consisting of intelligence units, mobile checkpoints and patrols, to curb the violence in San Fernando and its outskirts, caused by months of bloody gunbattles and turf wars between the Gulf cartel and their former Zetas armed wing, reported local media. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
The rifle of a federal agent is seen through a marijuana leaf during the destruction of a marijuana plantation on the outskirts of the town of Casas Grandes, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua July 18, 2011.Federal agents located and destroyed 9 marijuana plantations totalling 7.4 acres in various areas of Casas Grandes sierra, local media reported. The federal forces incinerated some 9,600 kg (9.6 tonnes) of the drug and no detentions were reported.Picture taken July 18, 2011. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez
A soldier looks into an incomplete drug tunnel, which has its entrance hidden in a house under construction, in Tijuana August 12, 2011. The army located the tunnel, which is approximately 298m long, one metre wide and 1.8m high, in the city of Tijuana, which shares a border with the U.S.. Ten people, including a woman, were captured by the army in connection with the tunnel's construction, according to local media. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
A police officer walks near dead bodies lying on a street facing the beach at the Mexican resort of Acapulco August 16, 2011. Two men were shot dead by unidentified gunmen, according to local media. REUTERS/Stringer
Mexico's President Felipe Calderon (9th L) and government officials attend a wreath-laying ceremony outside a casino that was torched by armed men in Monterrey August 26, 2011. Calderon declared three days of mourning on Friday and demanded a crackdown on drugs in the United States after armed men torched a casino in northern Mexico, killing at least 52 people. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
A man, with a chain around his neck, lies dead under a pedestrian bridge on a pavement in a street in Acapulco August 26, 2011. The man was found dead with the chain which was still hanging from the bridge, according to local media. REUTERS/Stringer
A soldier sits on a cart inside a narco-tunnel found in Tijuana and crossing into the U.S., November 25, 2010. Mexico's famously seedy border city of Tijuana is enjoying a lull in drug murders as the Sinaloa cartel, the country's most powerful gang, gains the upper hand over its rivals. While other parts of Mexico are hit by an increase in drugs violence, the beheadings and massacres familiar a few years ago are now rare in Tijuana, a key battleground on one of the most lucrative drug smuggling corridors to the United States. Picture taken November 25, 2010. REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
Soldiers stand next to confiscated communication equipment at a navy base in Veracruz September 8, 2011. Mexico's navy on Thursday presented to the media confiscated communication equipment including 13 antennas with high frequency repeaters used by the Zetas to communicate with each other along the Gulf of Mexico. Eighty suspects, among them six policemen, were arrested during the operation in which the equipment was confiscated, according to local media. REUTERS/Yahir Ceballos
A bullet shell is seen at a crime scene in the municipality of Apodaca, neighbouring Monterrey September 15, 2011. Three transit officers of this municipality were gunned down by hitmen early Thursday, local media reported. At least 23 persons have been killed in the past 24 hours. REUTERS/Stringer
The dead bodies of a woman and a man hang from a pedestrian bridge in Nuevo Laredo September 13, 2011. Mexican drug gangs issued a brutal warning to online drug war commentators as they hung two mutilated bodies from an overpass near the U.S. border this week. The bodies of a man and a woman were found beaten and hung from a pedestrian walkway in the city of Nuevo Laredo on Tuesday with a placard nearby warning bloggers to keep quiet, an official at the state prosecutor's office said. The victims, who have not been identified, were aged between 20 and 25 and were found badly mutilated, said the official, who asked not to be named. Picture taken September 13, 2011. REUTERS/Agencia Rubios News
Lionel Scott Harris, a suspected drug trafficker from the U.S., is escorted by police officers during his extradition to the U.S. at Simon Bolivar Airport in Caracas September 19, 2011. The sign reads, Captured. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins
Soldiers use a pickup truck of the local municipal police in San Fernando, in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, December 20, 2011. Mexico's Defense Ministry has deployed hundreds of soldiers consisting of intelligence units, mobile checkpoints and patrols, to curb the violence in San Fernando and its outskirts, caused by months of bloody gunbattles and turf wars between the Gulf cartel and their former Zetas armed wing, reported local media. REUTERS/Daniel Becerril
Anti-narcotics workers display bags containing cocaine in front of an incinerator in Lima September 22, 2011. More than six tons of drugs including cocaine paste, marijuana, cocaine and opium seized during police operations held between July and September were incinerated. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil
Guatemalan soldiers patrol a street in Coban, some 200 km (124 miles) northeast Guatemala City, September 9, 2011. Mexican cartels working with local gangs control around 40 percent of Guatemala, U.S. military experts say, a massive challenge for a new president set to be elected in November and a serious worry for Mexico and the United States. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez
Demonstrators carry crosses at the Angel of Independence monument, where an altar has been created for peace in the country, in Mexico City October 31, 2011. Poet and peace activist Javier Sicilia of the Peace with Justice and Dignity movement, whose son was killed in March, organised the two-day altar with candles and named crosses for the Day of the Dead to pay homage to over 40,000 who have lost their lives during the drug war. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon sent army troops into the fight when he took office in late 2006. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
Suspect Ovidio Limon Sanchez (C) is being presented to the media at the hangar of Mexico's Attorney General in Mexico City November 10, 2011. Mexico's military has arrested a narcotics trafficker suspected of running operations on the home turf of the country's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin Shorty Guzman, officials said on Thursday. Limon Sanchez, who has a $5 million dollar price tag on his head, ran Guzman's operations in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, the state after which Guzman's powerful cartel is named, according to the U.S. State Department. REUTERS/Bernardo Montoya
Children play with the police line at a crime scene in Monterrey November 20, 2011. Unknown assailants entered a downtown bar early Sunday to kill a waitress and injuring her boyfriend, local media reported. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
People stand around a truck with the charred corpses of 11 men and a woman in a residential street in Culiacan November 23, 2011. Mexican authorities found the burned bodies of 16 people in the home state of the country's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin Shorty Guzman, the attorney general's office of Sinaloa said on Wednesday. An official at the attorney general's office said the bodies were discovered early in the morning in two locations in Culiacan, the capital city of Sinaloa, the northwestern state after which Guzman's powerful cartel is named. REUTERS/Fidel Duran
A dead body is seen at a crime scene on the outskirts of Nezahualcoyotl, outside Mexico City November 24, 2011. The man was shot dead by unknown hitmen, according to local media. REUTERS/Alejandro Dias
A soldier guards the perimeter of a ranch used by hitmen to kill their rivals in the town of Cerralvo on the outskirts of Monterrey November 28, 2011. Hitmen use the ranch to torture, kill and burn their victims, local media reported. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo
Soldiers escort a blindfolded suspect after a shootout in Maztlan November 29, 2011. Police and gunmen faced each other in a shootout with the gunmen then trying to hide in a residential area, according to local media. One of the gunmen was arrested but others managed to escape. REUTERS/Stringer
A man suspected of being involved with the Pacific drug cartel is presented to the media after a military operation in Jiutepec February 10, 2011. Soldiers raided a safe house which belongs to the cartel, according to local media. REUTERS/Margarito Perez
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