Ann Deslandes         
                Ann Deslandes is a freelance writer and researcher based in Mexico City.
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        Military police gather at an early morning murder, one of numerous murders over a 24 hour period, on March 26, 2010 in Juarez, Mexico. 
     
    
 
     
    
    
        
    
            
         
        Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks. 
     
    
 
     
    
    
        
    
            
         
        Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard speaks in Mexico City on Dec. 23. 
     
    
 
     
    
    
        
    
            
         
        A student walks through the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 9 during a day of national strike to denounce gender violence and the increasing toll of femicide. 
     
    
 
     
    
    
        
    
            
         
        A technician extracts blood from a patient for an HIV test in Mexico City on July 18. 
     
    
 
     
    
    
        
    
            
         
        A Guerrero community police member stands guard at an illegal poppy field in Heliodoro Castillo, Guerrero state, Mexico, on March 25, 2018. 
     
    
    
    
                When Poppies Don’t Pay             
 
    
	
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        A police agent confiscates illegal poppy flowers during an operation in Sinaloa, Mexico on March 15. (Rashide Frias /AFP/Getty Images)