Jérôme Sessini MEXICO. Ciudad Juarez. December 5, 2008.
At San Rafael Juarez cemetery, bodies are now being exhumed.
Thanks to the project " Inter-diciplinario de identificacion de restos humanos", The governme (...) 
nt is hoping new scientific methods will help identify so many of the nameless dead in what is becoming a crisis of major proportions.
Many of those bodies are still in the morgue. They have not been identified, nobody has claimed them. Many of their families don't even know they have died."
Ciudad Juarez now accounts for a quarter of the country's record 5 O00 murders so far this year. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
			
					Jérôme Sessini MEXICO, Tijuana. November 21, 2008.
Tijuana municipal police station at friday night.
A couple of police agents detained for public disturbs and threats with weapon. Widespread corruption among M (...) 
exico's badly paid police is undermining President Felipe Calderon's army-backed war on drug gangs, which has claimed more than 4,300 lives this year.
Police corruption forced Calderon to turn to the army, which is seen as less corrupt, when he launched an all-out crackdown on violent cartels after taking office in 2006. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
			
					Jérôme Sessini MEXICO. Ciudad Juarez. December 9, 2008.
The border fence whith El Paso  in Anapra colonia of Ciudad Juarez.
Washington is fortifying its 3,000-kilometre border with Mexico, with a view to preven (...) 
ting people from reaching the United States, where an estimated 11 million so-called 'indocumentados,' or undocumented workers, already live. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos