Heroin addicts shoot up along the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande River with the US border in the background January 16, 2009 in Juarez, Mexico. An ongoing drug war between cartels for control of the drug routes into the US killed 1600 people in Juarez last year and already 40 since the start of the new year making the city the most violent in Mexico.

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Heroin addicts shoot up along the dry riverbed of the Rio Grande River with the US border in the background January 16, 2009 in Juarez, Mexico. An ongoing drug war between cartels for control of the drug routes into the US killed 1600 people in Juarez last year and already 40 since the start of the new year making the city the most violent in Mexico.

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Size: 3432px × 5150px
Location: Juarez, Mexico
Photo credit: © Richard Ellis / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: addict, border, cartels, day, drugs, gangs, heroin, inject, juarez, junky, lowlife, mexico, narco, outdoors, poverty, sinaloa, smack, snort, vertical