La Frontera

Weaving above, below, and across the U.S.-Mexico border over the course of a year, a photographer captures the violence and trauma of a deadly drug war and those caught in its crossfire.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LOUIE PALU | JANUARY 2, 2013

A man shot multiple times in drug-related violence is pulled toward a stretcher by a medic in the Mexican city of Culiacán.

 

Louie Palu is a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation.