Edwin Campos Ordinola, 4, plays with a toy camera in the patio of the family's house in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.
With more than 2,600 violent deaths in 2009, and 655 as of April 12 of this year, Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico continues to merit the label of the world's most violent city. As a result of the drug violence, gang extorsion schemes and official corruption, an exodus of considerable proportions is currently underway from the ravaged city. Those with the means to do so, move across the Rio Grande River to El Paso, Texas. But for the working class, poorer citizens of Juarez, their options are much more limited although they are just as desparate. During the boom days of the maquila industry in Juarez, there was a substantial migration from the south of Mexico, especially the state of Veracruz. Recently, the state government there has implemented a program of financial assistance to those who wish to return to their home towns in the state. The Campos Ordinola family is one example of lower class Veracruzanos living in Juarez who have experienced the violence themselves, have had enough of it and decided to return to the small town of Tres Valles. Son Edwin, 4, plays with a toy camera.
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Location: Ciudad Juarez , Chihuahua, Mexico
Photo credit: © Keith Dannemiller / Alamy / Afripics
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