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Macho bloodshed in Mexico

The slaughter of 16 teenagers completed the bloodiest month yet in the battle for power among Mexican drug cartels. But it’s no longer just about drugs

By Ed Vulliamy  /  THE OBSERVER

In 1988, long before the worst, a photographer still working in Ciudad Juarez called Julian Cardona and the writer Charles Bowden produced a book entitled Juarez: The Laboratory of Our Future. The future has arrived. And it appears to offer an experiment in a new form of mass violence with no purpose other than spectacle.

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