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to. mexico a country that forms a bridge between north and south america a land of violence and diversity. many here long for a better life in the united states. mexico has been ravaged by political revolution and the drug trade. in this film focuses on the complexity of life in mexico as captured by some of the country's leading photographers. mexico's population is more than 120000000. despite prevailing violence and corruption the people display a remarkable vitality creativity and resistance.

the photographers whose work is featured in this film have documented the diversity of everyday life in mexico. their images bring us closer to understanding the people of this country their joints and their sorrows. mexico's northern border extends more than 3100 kilometers from the pacific ocean to the atlantic. it was defined by the 848 treaty that ended the mexican american war. mexico ceded territory including the modern day state of california plus parts of what would become new mexico arizona nevada utah and colorado. and they think there's a photograph of the border office and in many different places. and i shoot a lot. this landscape is impressive but the border runs right through the

hills and the rest of the environment. it's like a scar from a knife. and the border doesn't run in a straight line it goes one way and then another. further journalist francisco has been crossing the us mexico border for 2 decades his work now focuses on long term documentary projects. they're still for. you know my travels along the border taught me a lot most of all i learned that the northern region is not the same everywhere. because the lot of those who were. francisco portrays the borders 3 photos of inanimate objects and people.

he often uses metaphorical images to make his point. the wall starts at the beach and ends here that's why i like this place. but it's funny right now i'm illegally in the u.s. and now. i'm back in mexico here come the border police just on the. construction of the main border barrier began in 1904 as part of president bill clinton's operation gatekeeper strategy the project was aimed at reducing illegal immigration. between 202016 the length of the wall was extended to around 1100 kilometers. in 2018 the u.s. government started up creating the old barrier near to one of. these new steel

panels are about 5 meters high. i. i. know what i do when you talk to people from mexico or no way of all of a though they tell you stories from their childhood they crossed the border to buy milk and americans came over to buy tortillas. some experts call the border area a 3rd nation where people from both sides would interact with each other. just at the same. i think one name but that is in the us and the city of tijuana in particular has

always fascinated me because of all that it represents because when that's true it's a destination for a lot of migrants and a major point of transit want to also welcomes people who come there and decide to stay. good also that it's going to that's for 2 or 3 generations have now been born there although their parents came from somewhere else these people grew up and he want to feel at home here they love their city this kid and neutralise her. but there's. a lot of good. even if you stumble along the border i interviewed a lot of mexicans who had recently been deported from the u.s. . i talked for hours with people who were living in the t one a sewer system and i didn't even take a single photo. these

people often have no place to live and many become drug addicts who are in there already because. there's a brew up but there are serious problems with education politics and the economy economy here. california is one of the busiest land border crossings in the world. an estimated 70000 cars and 20000 protests trains cross it every day. and i once took a photo that i really came to like it was taken at san ysidro because it's a small metal disk that shows the border line it says to us at the top and mexico at the bottom basis and we will. make you go. there.

but i'm working actually would you mind if i took some photos. we now travel east to the border city of ciudad what is which rises from the harsh landscape of the chihuahua desert. prohibition in the 1920 s. drove many american bars and strip clubs here and the city grew rapidly. today ciudad juarez is plagued by prostitution drug trafficking and corruption. miter markdale was born here in 1979 later she studied photography in mexico city spain and new york and then returned home.

over the past 2 decades there's been a huge increase in violent crime here between drug cartels and the army and the face of the city has changed many residents have fled officials have tried to reduce crime by tearing down buildings in problematic districts. might have documented these efforts in some of her photographs this work prompted her to start investigating a series of crimes that haunts the city to this day the kidnapping and murder of young women. that you quote is it not any i'm asking about a bank there this year why did you hear what he says the city's main street. used

to be full of tourists is that yes you went on the interstate yet there were lots of bars in this district and crowds of american visitors to me of him and us than they were of the us i want a lot of the young women who disappeared in 20092010 were killed. no 2 right here on the streets in ennis there will get a guy you know that he cast in my career and most of them were between 15 and 22 years old they were looking for work in these shops which even employed children and then yeah. that was the girls came in for job interviews that you get when you want. causes but they left and then they were kidnapped by members of the gang that ruled the entire district back about how i bypass on a. local call the miracles close she was my 1st case. so this is really the. news continues he is using his 15th birthday

present she disappeared a year later. might have searched through police archives and that suspected gang members. she also wanted to find out how the women had lived before they vanished she wanted them to become more than mere statistics. our leisure mallaby men i started by calling erika car use mother and she invited me to come over and see her sink at a minimum gas. isn't gonna set in is warm and i got to know erica through some of her personal belongings. and that was i had to decide how best to portray people who had disappeared.

most of the victims had worked at low wage jobs in american owned assembly plants near the border. they lived in settlements on the outskirts of the city near the places where they worked. in february 2012 a former discovered 26 bodies in a dry riverbed in the chihuahua desert miter had portrayed 12 of the victims in her photographic essay. the women had been held at the hotel verity in ciudad juarez. but they got a bit out of the circle that it members of the los us take us gang used to hang out at the hotel she asked us and yet they abducted young women held them at the hotel

and forced them into prostitution either in private homes or in the hotel itself the women also had to work as prostitutes in jails and prisons morning count whenever he met monica was the 1st to be identified and her remains were found in a river bed later investigators confirmed that she had been held prisoner at the hotel for about 4 months. it's a question a lot then was when i was quite wrong ists. police closed off the hotel during the investigation and trial but minor managed to get inside. of a us who out of the u.s.b. saw they were 3 floors the doors were open everywhere. no one is as i saw a blood stained pillows this place was terrifying it was 6 in the morning if the police had caught me they'd arrested me when i was having my shot some videos took some pictures but i was really scared. the hotel very day trial began in

2015 an effort to bring to justice the. those responsible for the kidnappings and murders. on the general good and bad the some of the girls said they didn't want to work for the gang any more so they were driven to a remote area outside the city. as a family and then the gang members marched them into the desert and special in their heads with rocks out in south africa and the mahdi. the authorities saying about 1500 women have been murdered in ciudad juarez since the 1990 s. . and number of local journalists and photographers have also been killed while my father was researching the story she too was kidnapped probably by gang members. there is a bit of sally

a movie it was horrible some guys showed up and pushed me into a van and they threatened me for several hours i mean what they finally let me go see it myself that important now that. the incident prompted myra to leave the city she returns only occasionally and never stays more than a few days. look at me to ask was not my work tries to explain what's happening to the people of mexico our society is falling apart we have to understand that. since 2005 mathematic though has documented 142 missing persons cases and 30 murders of young women.

my journey continues to the country's capital and largest city more than 20000000 people live in mexico city 4 times as many as in 1960 many people have moved here from nearby states there's been a steady increase in crime here in recent years especially in the poorer districts experts say much of the increase is due to disputes between rival gangs and cartels . federico gama specializes in photographing young people who feel like they don't fit into contemporary society. i live in mexico city. i grew up in a traditional neighborhood here. my work is based on 3 main themes identity

clothing as a means of expression and something i call cultural migration works. because before you can and because projects are sort of are autobiographical. for certain the city where i was born and i know these people. but this was a boy i had some experience with goings but i look at the better for me the most interesting thing about cultural migration is that it involves not only people with the know what i mean but also ideas ways of thinking and views of the world. these are from my book. the origins of china's subculture can be traced back to the latin or neighborhoods of los angeles in the 1970 s. chalo groups became popular as a means of expressing social cultural and political resistance to mainstream

american society. the thing is particularly distinctive. in the early 1990 s. tunnel culture spread to mexico. i took these photos of channels in a working class district of mexico city. people have us believe last december of course and to feel inside a major impact on these young people blood in blood out an american me. after they saw these films they became childless right away gentlemen. but 8 years later for them the american dream is to belong to a gun like in the movies but they're all you know. about i mean this photo is very symbolic these guys are in with their guns at my camera. it shows that there's a certain level of trust between us at the new. display

of the crime with violence that's associated with these young people at the i think the important part of these are families communities neighborhoods and the country that's where you battled price. was this boy thinks he's like him but like damn. people the president calls us to stand for completely different things mexicans who live in the us suffer discrimination for them clothing signifies social resistance which is this is was here. you skin this expresses their working class mexican roots in the he can. be a key says quote and this one hides what the others are proud of their indigenous and proletarian origins is going there in the can into ohio.

in the district of taco by federico photographs young people who belong to an indigenous ethnic group called the mother when they combine elements of challah punk and skater subcultures federico calls them our channel skateparks. wearing punk or cholo or skater clothing because my sense of counter culture sophistication which of course. you can see this very clearly in a photo i call force of gravity. for this young man presents himself powerfully against an urban backdrop. but look at that he's wearing a to lucas soccer scarf as a headband skater gloss cholo trousers and the shirt but the long told look you reckon he said. to me

because the situation of the indigenous people ask country is very complex. because many of them work out of school jobs in mexico city. they live like foreigners here even though they descend from the original residents the price of. the last one of us out where their home region is about 150 kilometers from mexico city. they help to build learn to look the capital city that was founded in the 14th century. just really here in the summers are women have told me. building the city before the spanish arrived was called force we were ruled by the aztecs and today we're ruled by the people who live here. in the political minerals condors could be telling us. they are doing this. now is gonna work and i finally where that way look at

the. biggest person if you come back to them body the attitude of youth counterculture trouble called her program. after liz i were childless capon course i want to i started to work on a project called last illuminati. it's about a phenomenon that i call 12 d. .

our political team goes for a lady of guadalupe and the young people who make a pilgrimage to her silicate in mexico city on december 12th to pay their respects to her they would pull him out alive you. can look at the party i'm interested in the connection between violence crime and religion.

i think these young people feel a certain social disillusionment combined got a kind of fanaticism that they express by turning to religion rigorous all. release your. power i am. now we moved to southern mexico. is one of the poorest states in the country it's largely rural and the population is mostly indigenous.

it got a doll at argonne was born in the town of good luck he was the 1st person in his family to attend a university his work focuses on mexico's violent history including disputes between indigenous peoples and the large corporations that have taken over their land. in his installations edgardo combines videos photographs and paintings his project is called made for america the hurricane effect it focuses on the development of large scale wind energy projects along the isthmus i've talked to peg and walker nearly 1300. wind turbines have been built there so far. the government has also proposed to build an overland transport corridor in the region to compete with the panama canal. which is where the battle went and whether there are serious contradictions here. you see large wind turbines that produce clean energy and you

think what a beautiful landscape. but if you dig deeper you'll find a lot of problems that are common in mexico. confiscation of land while it's death displacement and inequality which is another one of. the wind farms were built on communal land that had been distributed to peasants as part of reforms that followed the mexican revolution of 1910. but in 1992 the government approved legislation that allowed the privatization of this land. that's how the big energy companies moved into the islamists wanted. and they didn't have to do much in return so they just bribe the local authorities to drive out the people who live there.

the wind turbines here. yeah they've already started over there. is there is much wind here as in some material. well it's not as windy here is it is there. blows all the time. none of the wind turbines here supply this region with energy. not even nearby communities like.

it was only 8 kilometers from a wind farm but it has no electricity. when either. the island is inhabited by an indigenous people called the. island has been hit hard recently by hurricanes and earthquakes. the government has pretty much given up on this area and has tried to resettle the people who live there and that there are used to be a communal kitchen here. i mean look after the storm an earthquake destroyed a wall here but you don't know about it but. in

his ironic photo series happy people edgardo at a gun refers to a official serving the claims that mexico is one of the happiest countries in the world. are going on in and i believe that what are the police patrol graduates that i was not there with her job at all that that back up big problems or with drugs and organized crime and almost happened to the crooks nothing really never fell because they've got money to get out there you know that. the only people who get locked up here are the per. if you have money you can ignore the law if you know where to get if you don't have any money tough luck and also people are sent to prison for petty crimes and the other weapon of. the.

i mean no one has a little bit was my name is what a loop a vasquez luna i come from the village of x. ya'll in the state of chiapas my native language is. i used to walk along this path all the time because it's close to my father's land the. sea and bread and i mean there are coffee plantations and farm fields nearby. but we do use a small path when we go to fetch water. but we were always afraid that we'd be attacked by a dangerous animal like a tiger or something. or a 1st 1904 rebels and peasants launched their zapatista uprising in the state of chiapas to protest the enactment of the north american free trade agreement and

it's expected impact on the impoverished local residents. the uprising was named after him eon of the past or a key leader of the 1910 revolution and an advocate of agrarian socialism. these rebels were concerned that under nafta mexican farmers would face stiff competition from the u.s. . they were also opposed to the mexican government's latest attempts at land reform . paddleboat he had to travel to rebel held areas to take photographs of the uprising he'd already covered several armed conflict in latin america.

but i'd seen fighting surge will america but i never thought it would happen in my own country. and conflict out of my will. we arrived at a 3rd day things were tense and there was lots of go viral. a single bit and found some dead sub to teach us what. this photo of subcomandante marcos was one of the 1st i took of him until then he had allowed journalists to get close to him. fighting between the rebels and mexican troops continued for 12 days then the government declared a cease fire. in february 1906 the rebels and the government worked out a peace deal but the 2 sides disagreed on several important points. riginal accord was never implemented the government then started arming. militias who often

clashed with the rebels. was the most graphic here that strategy has been used in these kinds of conflicts and many different countries. where the government avoids a direct conflict. and relies instead on militias to fight the rebels and what it. but it's a long term strategy that can play out over 20 or 30 years as it did in this case barry barry barry your score one is the. repeated attacks by militia forces prompted many local residents to leave their homes and move to refugee camps. in late december 1970 militiamen attacked the village of. his father along so taught

catechism in the village and organized fast in prayer meetings most of the local residents supported the zapatista rebels on december 22nd alonso called the villagers together for a prayer meeting then they heard the sound of gunfire. sight unseen. we watched as the bullets flew over us and up through the trees. my father said just imagine if we were hit. you think if these bullets can tear into a tree what would they do to us that we are so not what they said. the last thing i remember was that my mother was shot in the arm. there was a man with a gun in front of me maybe 10 meters away. yes mit. but i mean and they were shooting at my mother i stood up and screamed. yellow and i wasn't afraid of the gunfire or the soldiers anymore but i'm. ok i mean this the

only thing that mattered was that i'd lost my mother. i mean mother and the son i think that must mean yes i had lost me also children started screaming and crying and you could hear cries of pain everywhere. just don't know what you know i can still hear those sounds it was traumatic. what. this is that's the last thing i remember seeing a little thing where you have to be and i'm a sucker the word out of the massacre lasted all day as the one is but you know these the girls that was confirmed by journalists who reported on the story. those religious were slaughtered for that but it has a press photographer about i've experienced a lot of armed conflict but i've never seen a massacre bike that one these not. those that i thought at least i what i think 45 people were murdered they were massacred and i thought it was the events that took place have been confirmed. paramilitaries came to the church and killed

women and children so. that if they cut open the bellies of 3 pregnant women and pulled out the fetuses. allow us. one will say that during the massacre there were army units there. but they didn't intervene not my sack and. her brother and 2 sisters were the only members of the family who survived. they fled to a rebel camp. other survivors went to a nearby village. pedro visited the village soon after work. and there's a killer love the refugee camp was located near that helen told to stop one last note in the court will give you. a kiss is where they slept. so they also want to

hear. the massacre had taken place 12 or 15 days earlier this no more less that. by the end people were angry with the army what a relatives of the 45 people who were murdered in october now believe that the army was their greatest enemy. and they didn't want the soldiers around any against them you know and i can say it again. 'd a lesson i'm going to sink i was i wanted to go to the women got together then decided to ask the troops to leave the he'd say it but i penniless because if.

they offered it to them slowly. i mean that will go of me and i started to get worried when i saw the women here pushing the troops and going to the soldiers staggered backwards and i was at that as i mean yeah but i want to. think. that was good and good but. they locked up what we. might be left with. the. reason. they sang.

the deal of the thing your pussy little people are less for i never give my photos a title that is a so your but i call this one that the women of so yeah it's that because it represents many women and. all the women who are involved in the struggle in this movement and this idea there and. this photograph was published worldwide. it shows that a popular resistance moved. even a small one can change the course of events. we have come here today want to call attention to our demands for autonomy. one evil governments after another and their institutions and security forces continue to commit crimes against our brothers and against indigenous peoples.

the us then leave it alone those who took part in that massacre were arrested but later released it will be the government decided that it did not want to punish them too harshly by york and that's why they're free no. less than i. i hardly ever talk about it because it brings back painful memories. but if i don't talk about it people will forget and that's what the government wants what we have not good and then all of a. guadalupe vasquez is now a member of the national indigenous congress which promotes the autonomy of native peoples. photographer glad to be there says the camera gives her an alternative view of

reality when she looks through the lens the world appears differently. is a legend among mexican photographers. during her studies she was inspired by the work of the renowned money well alvarez brother who later became her mentor. she's also been influenced by the work of younger contemporary mexico. photographers. classy as lyrical images focus on the wide ranging diversity of mexico's culture and its people. just really ok to come back after the break that's the camera gave me the opportunity to explore the culture of my country. and fit in with what i thought

were going to he was more that's how i got to know mexico and all of its different ways of life. in knowledge of that if what i don't use telephoto lenses or flash devices are just too close ups of the therapy. is that we're up to 3 working one subjects are mexicans just like me. who's to say whether they or i lead a better life for the us. better are sympathetic but i've always felt a connection with these people. to be they has managed to capture a world of beauty dreams and illusions and a land where life is often shaped by harsh realities. her work and that of these other photographers sheds unique light on the profound resilience of the mexican

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