La Cuidad

Mexico City, The world’s most populated metropolis is in the midst of a crime wave that has even the most jaded of residents shocked. By conservative estimates, the casualty scale has climbed to an average of 16 murders a day. And the police are widely perceived as too corrupt to tackle the crisis. Drug wars are, of course, nothing new in Mexico, but authorities say the battlefield is now expanding from cartel strongholds such as Juarez and Matamoras to the capital itself. Robberies and botched kidnappings are commonplace. The city’s poor neighborhoods remain the most crime-filled, with poverty fueling much of the violence. But wealthier areas are not immune either. Drug-related violence has increased dramatically in recent months, and shows no sign of abating.