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Culiacan - Mexican Drug War
Culiacan, Sinaloa.Mexico.July 4, 2008..The drug business is so ingrained in Culiacan, it's souvenir shops sell items with emblems commemorating the outlaw culture: marijuana leaf belts, machine guns, embroideries of airplanes, like those used for smuggling. And, there's even a patron saint of drug smuggling--the legendary bandito Jesus Malverde-who has his own Chapel and whose image is seen dangling from the chain necklaces of many young Culiacan men...From January 1 to mid-July 2008 there have been 535 drug related killings in Sinolao, many of them were police officers..
