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I will show you a selection of the most famous photographs recent years. There is a jump from the window of the World Trade Center on September 11, and the execution of Saddam Hussein, a photograph of a child in the womb when a surgeon performs an abortion on her, and much more.
Of course, you all saw these shots separately, but when they are collected in one post, the effect is gorgeous.
Welcome to history.
"The most famous photograph“that no one saw,” is what Associated Press photographer Richard Drew calls his photograph of one of the World Trade Center victims who jumped from a window to his death on September 11
“On that day, which, more than any other day in history, was captured on cameras and film,” Tom Junod later wrote in Esquire, “the only taboo, by common consent, was the pictures of people jumping out of windows.” Five years later, Richard Drew's Falling Man remains a terrible artifact of the day that should have changed everything, but didn't.
Malcolm Brown, a 30-year-old Associated Press photographer from New York, received a telephone call asking him to be at a certain intersection in Saigon the next morning because... something very important is about to happen.
He came there with a reporter from the New York Times. Soon a car pulled up and several Buddhist monks got out. Among them is Thich Quang Duc, who sat in the lotus position with a box of matches in his hands, while the others began to pour gasoline on him. Thich Quang Duc struck a match and turned into a living torch. Unlike the crying crowd that saw him burn, he did not make a sound or move. Thich Quang Duc wrote a letter to the then head of the Vietnamese government asking him to stop the repression of Buddhists, stop detaining monks and give them the right to practice and spread their religion, but received no response.
Take a closer look at this photo. This is one of the most remarkable photographs ever taken. The baby's tiny hand reached out from the mother's womb to squeeze the surgeon's finger. By the way, the child is 21 weeks from conception, the age when he can still be legally aborted. The tiny hand in the photo belongs to a baby who was due on December 28 last year. The photo was taken during an operation in America.
The first reaction is to recoil in horror. It looks like a close-up of some terrible incident. And then you notice, in the very center of the photo, a tiny hand grasping the surgeon's finger.
The child is literally grasping for life. It is therefore one of the most remarkable photographs in medicine and a record of one of the most extraordinary operations in the world. It shows a 21-week-old fetus in the womb, just before spinal surgery was required to save the baby from serious brain damage. The operation was performed through a tiny incision in the wall of the uterus and this is the youngest patient. At this stage, the mother may choose to have an abortion.
The death of the Al-Dura boy, filmed by a French television station reporter as he is shot by Israeli soldiers while in the arms of his father.
The portrait of the "martyr" al-Dura was distributed in stamps, books, songs and posters. But Jewish activists in France, who have questioned the authenticity of the images, have waged a stubborn, years-long campaign to demand that French television also reveal parts of the footage that were not broadcast, excerpts showing Palestinians practicing to stage a shooting incident, resulting in which allegedly killed al-Dura.
By the early summer of 1994, Kevin Carter (1960-1994) was at the height of his fame. He had just won the Pulitzer Prize, and job offers from famous magazines were pouring in one after another. “Everyone congratulates me,” he wrote to his parents, “I can’t wait to meet you and show you my trophy. This is the highest recognition of my work, which I did not dare even dream of.”
Kevin Carter won the Pulitzer Prize for his photograph "Famine in Sudan," taken in the early spring of 1993. On this day, Carter specially flew to Sudan to film scenes of famine in a small village. Tired of photographing people who had died of hunger, he left the village into a field overgrown with small bushes and suddenly heard a quiet cry. Looking around, he saw a little girl lying on the ground, apparently dying of hunger. He wanted to take a photo of her, but suddenly a vulture landed a few steps away. Very carefully, trying not to spook the bird, Kevin chose the best position and took the photo. After that, he waited another twenty minutes, hoping that the bird would spread its wings and give him the opportunity to get a better shot. But the damned bird did not move and, in the end, he spat and drove it away. Meanwhile, the girl apparently gained strength and walked - or rather crawled - further. And Kevin sat down near the tree and cried. He suddenly had a terrible desire to hug his daughter...
A female settler resists an Israeli army officer, Amona outpost, West Bank, February 1, 2006.
A Jewish settler confronts Israeli police as they enforce a Supreme Court decision to dismantle nine houses at the Amona settlement outpost, West Bank, February 1. Residents, joined by thousands of other protesters, erected barbed wire barriers to protect their homes and clashed with police. More than 200 people were injured, including 80 police officers. After hours of confrontation, the settlers were driven from the site and bulldozers arrived and began demolition.
A 12-year-old Afghan girl is a famous photograph taken by Steve McCurry in a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Soviet helicopters destroyed the village of a young refugee, her entire family was killed, and the girl traveled for two weeks in the mountains before getting to the camp. After its publication in June 1985, this photograph became a National Geographic icon. Since then, this image has been used everywhere - from tattoos to rugs, which turned the photograph into one of the most widely circulated photos in the world.
Stanley Forman/Boston Herald, USA. July 22, 1975, Boston. A girl and a woman fall while trying to escape a fire
"Unknown Rebel" in Tiananmen Square. This famous photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Jeff Widner, shows a protester who single-handedly held off a tank column for half an hour.
Poland - girl Teresa, who grew up in a concentration camp, draws a "house" on the board. 1948. © David Seymour
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 (often referred to simply as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide terrorist attacks that occurred in the United States of America. By official version The Islamist terrorist organization al-Qaeda is responsible for these attacks.
On the morning of that day, nineteen terrorists allegedly associated with al-Qaeda, divided into four groups, hijacked four scheduled passenger airliners. Each group had at least one member who had completed basic flight training. The invaders flew two of these planes into the World War II towers. Shopping Center, American Airlines Flight 11 into WTC 1, and United Airlines Flight 175 into WTC 2, causing both towers to collapse, causing severe damage to adjacent structures.
Niagara Falls is frozen. Photo of 1911
Mike Wells, UK. April 1980. Karamoja region, Uganda. Hungry boy and missionary.
White and Colored, photograph by Elliott Erwitt, 1950
Spencer Platt, USA (Spencer Platt), Getty Images
Young Lebanese drive through a devastated area of Beirut, August 15, 2006.
Young Lebanese men drive down a street in Haret Hreik, a bomb-prone suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, August 15. For nearly five weeks, Israel has attacked this part of the city and other cities in southern Lebanon in an operation against Hezbollah militants. After the truce declared on August 14, thousands of Lebanese began to gradually return to their homes. According to the Lebanese government, 15,000 homes and 900 businesses were damaged.
The photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head not only won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also changed the way Americans think about what happened in Vietnam.
Despite the obviousness of the image, in fact the photograph is not as clear as it seemed to ordinary Americans, filled with sympathy for the executed man. The fact is that the man in handcuffs is the captain of the Viet Cong "revenge warriors", and on this day many unarmed civilians were shot and killed by him and his henchmen. General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, pictured left, was haunted his whole life by his past: he was refused treatment at an Australian military hospital, after moving to the US he faced a massive campaign calling for his immediate deportation, the restaurant he opened in Virginia every day was attacked by vandals. "We know who you are!" - this inscription haunted the army general all his life.
Lynching (1930) Lawrence Beitler
This photo was taken in 1930, when a mob of 10,000 whites hanged two black men for raping and murdering a white woman. young man. The mob "released" the criminals from prison to lynch them. A striking contrast - the joyful faces of people as a backdrop for the torn corpses.
At the end of April 2004, the CBS program 60 Minutes II aired a story about the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison by a group of American soldiers. The story featured photographs that were published in The New Yorker magazine a few days later. This became the biggest scandal surrounding the American presence in Iraq.
In early May 2004, the leadership of the US Armed Forces admitted that some of its torture methods did not comply with the Geneva Convention and announced its readiness to publicly apologize.
According to the testimony of a number of prisoners, American soldiers raped them, rode them on horseback, and forced them to fish food out of prison toilets. In particular, the prisoners said: “They forced us to walk on all fours, like dogs, and yelp. We had to bark like dogs, and if you didn’t bark, you were hit in the face without any mercy. After that, they threw us in cells, took away our mattresses, spilled water on the floor and forced us to sleep in this slurry without removing the hoods from our heads. And they were constantly photographing it all,” “One American said he would rape me. He drew a woman on my back and forced me to stand in a shameful position, holding my own scrotum in my hands.”
Burial of an unknown child.
On December 3, 1984, the Indian city of Bhopal suffered from the largest man-made disaster in human history. A giant toxic cloud released into the atmosphere by an American pesticide plant covered the city, killing three thousand people that same night, and another 15 thousand in the next month. In total, more than 150,000 people were affected by the release of toxic waste, and this does not include children born after 1984.
Nilsson gained international fame in 1965 when LIFE magazine published 16 pages of photographs of a human embryo.
These photographs were also immediately reproduced in Stern, Paris Match, The Sunday Times and other magazines. The same year, A Child is Born, a book of Nilsson's photographs, was published, the eight-millionth edition of which was sold out in the first few days. This book went through several reprints and still remains one of the most successfully sold illustrated books in the history of this kind of albums. Nilsson managed to obtain photographs of the human embryo back in 1957, but they were not yet impressive enough to be shown to the general public.
Photo of the Loch Ness monster. Ian Wetherell 1934
The photograph was taken on September 29, 1932, on the 69th floor during the final months of construction of Rockefeller Center.
Surgeon Jay Vacanti of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston is working with microengineer Jeffrey Borenstein to develop a technique for growing an artificial liver. In 1997, he managed to grow a human ear on the back of a mouse using cartilage cells.
The development of technology that allows culturing the liver is extremely important. In the UK alone there are 100 people on the transplant waiting list, and according to the British Liver Trust, most patients die before receiving a transplant.
Freezing rain... It sounds harmless enough, but nature often throws up unpleasant surprises.
Freezing rain can form a thick layer of ice on any object, even destroying giant power poles. And they can create incredibly beautiful objects of art of natural origin.
The photo shows the consequences of freezing rain in Switzerland.
A man tries to alleviate the difficult conditions for his son in a prison for prisoners of war.
Jean-Marc Bouju/AP, France.
March 31, 2003. An Najaf, Iraq.
Dolly is a female sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from the cell of another adult creature.
The experiment was carried out in the UK (Roslin Institute, Midlothian, Scotland), where she was born on July 5, 1996. The press announced her birth only 7 months later - on February 22, 1997. After living for 6 years, Dolly the sheep died on February 14, 2003.
Patterson-Gimlin's 1967 documentary film of a female Bigfoot, the American Bigfoot, is still the only clear photographic evidence of the existence on earth of living relict hominids, referred to in hominology as "homins."
At the same time, there is a fair amount of fuzzy, blurry images that are not suitable for scientific analysis. This is a testament to how difficult these primates are to photograph. As a rule, meetings with them occur at dusk and unexpectedly, so that the shocked eyewitness at the most crucial moment usually forgets not only that he has a photo or video camera, but even a weapon.
Republican soldier Federico Borel García is depicted facing death.
The photo caused a huge shock in society. The situation is absolutely unique. During the entire attack, the photographer took only one photo, and he took it at random, without looking through the viewfinder, he did not look towards the “model” at all. And this is one of the best, one of his most famous photographs. It was thanks to this photograph that already in 1938 newspapers called 25-year-old Robert Capa “The Greatest War Photographer in the World.”
The photograph taken by reporter Alberto Korda at a rally in 1960, in which Che Guevara is also visible between a palm tree and someone's nose, claims to be the most circulated photograph in the history of photography.
The photograph showing the hoisting of the Victory Banner over the Reichstag spread throughout the world. Evgeny Khaldey, 1945.
Death of a Nazi functionary and his family.
Vienna, 1945 Yevgeny Khaldei: “I went to the park near the parliament building to film the passing columns of soldiers. And I saw this picture. On the bench sat a woman, killed with two shots - in the head and neck, next to her were a dead teenager of about fifteen and a girl. A little further away lay the corpse of the father of the family. He had a gold NSDAP badge on his lapel, and a revolver lay nearby. (...) A watchman from the parliament building ran up:
- He did it, not Russian soldiers. Came at 6 am. I saw him and his family from the basement window. Not a soul on the street. He moved the benches together, ordered the woman to sit down, and ordered the children to do the same. I didn't understand what he was going to do. And then he shot the mother and son. The girl resisted, then he laid her on a bench and also shot her. He stepped aside, looked at the result and shot himself.”
Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995), a photographer working for Life magazine, walked around the square photographing people kissing. He later recalled that he noticed a sailor who “rushed around the square and kissed indiscriminately all the women in a row: young and old, fat and thin. I watched, but there was no desire to take a photo. Suddenly he grabbed something white. I barely had time to raise the camera and take a photo of him kissing the nurse.”
For millions of Americans, this photograph, which Eisenstadt called “Unconditional Surrender,” became a symbol of the end of World War II.
The assassination of the thirty-fifth President of the United States, John Kennedy, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas at 12:30 local time. Kennedy was fatally wounded by a gunshot as he and his wife Jacqueline rode in the presidential motorcade along Elm Street.
On December 30, ex-president Saddam Hussein was executed in Iraq. The Supreme Court has sentenced the former Iraqi leader to death by hanging. The sentence was carried out at 6 a.m. in a suburb of Baghdad.
The execution took place shortly before morning prayers, marking the beginning of the Muslim festival of sacrifice. She was filmed and now national Iraqi television is broadcasting this recording on all channels.
Representatives of the Iraqi authorities who were present reported that Hussein behaved with dignity and did not ask for mercy. He stated that he was "glad to accept death from his enemies and become a martyr" rather than vegetate in prison for the rest of his days.
American soldiers drag the body of a Viet Cong (South Vietnamese rebel) soldier on a leash.
Kyoichi Sawada/United Press International, Japan.
February 24, 1966, Tan Binh, southern Vietnam.
A young boy looks out of a bus loaded with refugees who fled the epicenter of the war between Chechen separatists and Russians, near Shali, Chechnya. The bus returns to Grozny.
Lucian Perkins/The Washington Post, USA.
May 1995. Chechnya
At the beginning of the month, a local historian was arrested in Nizhny Novgorod, in whose apartment more than a dozen mummified corpses of girls aged 15 to 25 were found.
(Total 9 photos)
1. A small three-room apartment with skeletons from which the detainee made life-size dolls was discovered by investigators shortly after the holidays.
2. As representatives of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Nizhny Novgorod reported, at night a man made his way to the cemetery and dug out corpses from the ground. After that, he put the remains in bags and dragged them to his home. The historian was traced after the police began investigating numerous cases of desecration of graves at two local cemeteries - Sormovsky and Sortirovochny.
3. As the police said, the historian developed his own technology for mummifying bodies, which he used to store the remains dug up in the cemetery. He dressed the mummified women in bright outfits and headdresses and seated them around the apartment like dolls.
4. Anatoly Moskvin invested musical mechanisms, plush hearts and fragments of tombstones into the skeletal bodies of girls.
5. Investigators believe that the purpose of stealing the remains was for collecting.
6. At the moment, we know about 29 mummified corpses of young girls, whom Anatoly Moskvin dug out of their graves and turned into elegant dolls. The bodies were dug up between a year and 15 years ago. In addition, two boxes of bones were taken from the scientist’s home, the age and identity of which remains to be determined by experts.
7. It is known that at one time the man completed his postgraduate studies at one of the leading universities with a degree in Celticology, and once taught. Until his arrest, Anatoly Moskvin worked as a local historian, gave lectures and conducted excursions in the Nizhny Novgorod library of the Leninsky district.
8. Previously, Moskvin became the hero of articles by Nizhny Novgorod journalist Tatyana Kokina-Slavina. She wrote that Moskvin specializes in the study of cemeteries (local historian and necropolisist). He managed to visit more than 750 cemeteries and began preparing a corresponding guidebook for publication. Kokina-Slavina noted that Moskvin is also a polyglot - he knows 13 languages.
9. Moskvin was charged under the article of the Criminal Code “Desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places.” In the near future, various examinations will be carried out, including forensic psychiatric examinations.
Dead people are cool. Don't repeat their mistakes...
1. Lisa “Left eye” Lopez. She was one of the three members of the American group TLC, which became known far beyond the United States thanks to the hits Waterfalls and No scrubs. Lisa took the nickname “left eye” because she was once told that she had beautiful eyes, especially her left one. At concerts, she put a condom on the left lens of her glasses, thus promoting safe sex. Lisa died in a car accident in Honduras in 2002. At this time, she was preparing for the release of her second solo album and the fourth album of the TLC group.
2. Jean Harlow. She was called nothing less than the “Blonde Bombshell.” She was the embodiment of Marilyn Monroe before there was Marilyn Monroe herself. Harlow has played many film roles, such as Howard Hughes' Hell's Angels, as well as several films with Clark Gable. Jean Harlow literally hypnotized viewers with her incredible sex appeal. The actress died at the age of 26 from kidney failure. It is believed that the health of the star, who was married three times, was undermined by a severe flu that she suffered in the year of her death. Interestingly, Marilyn Monroe was going to play Harlow shortly before her death.
3. Anna Nicole Smith. “Woke up famous” after the publication of her photographs in Playboy magazine, as well as after her marriage to 89-year-old billionaire James Howard Marshall, who, by the way, died after a year of marriage. On February 8, 2007, Anna Nicole was found unconscious in a Florida hotel. She died on the way to the hospital. The preliminary version is a drug overdose. 11 types of narcotic substances were later found in her body.
4. Princess Diana. She was the first wife of Prince Charles, who would later take the throne of the United Kingdom. Diana was known all over the world for her charitable and peacekeeping activities (in particular, she was an activist in the movement to stop the production of anti-personnel mines and the fight against AIDS). In the UK, Diana has always been considered the most popular member royal family, she was called Queen of Hearts (“Queen of Hearts”). Princess Diana died in a car accident in Paris. Together with Diana in the car were her friend Dodi al-Fayed and driver Henri Paul, who died on the spot. The princess died two hours later in hospital. The only surviving passenger, bodyguard Trevor Rhys-Jones, was seriously injured and has no memory of the events.
5. Dorothy Stratten. Was one of the most famous models Playboy magazine. She became "Girl of the Month" in August 1979 and "Girl of the Year" in 1980. Dorothy was shot by her husband Paul Snyder, with whom she was divorced at that time and the model lived with her friend, director Peter Bogdanovich. Stratten and Snyder met to discuss the financial side of the divorce; the girl was later found shot in the head in her husband's bedroom. Snyder killed Dorothy and then committed suicide.
6. Selena Quintanilla-Perez. Selena was called the “Mexican Madonna”, she was the main singer on the Latin American scene. Selena became famous at a fairly young age and during her short but colorful life she managed to release about a dozen albums. Selena was killed by the president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar. In addition to her work at the fan club, Saldivar was the manager of Selena's stores in Texas, but she was fired for theft. In March 1995, Selena and Saldivar met at a hotel in Corpus Christi, Texas, to work things out. financial questions. When the meeting ended and Selena was about to leave the hotel, Yolanda Saldivar shot her in the back. The singer was able to get to the reception, but later died in the hospital.
.7. Edie Sedgwick. American actress, socialite and muse of Andy Warhol. Sedgwick became famous thanks to her appearances in Warhol's underground films and her participation in his Factory project. Sedgwick struggled with drug addiction most of my adult life. By 1971, she was no longer using drugs, but her doctor prescribed barbiturates to stop her physical pain. On the night of November 15, 1971, Sedgwick took the prescribed amount of medication and went to bed; in the morning Edie never woke up.
8. Chrissy Taylor. Got a pass to the modeling business thanks to her sister, supermodel Nicky Taylor. At the age of 11, she began participating in filming with her sister and soon her career took off. Chrissie was discovered dead in her parents’ apartment by her sister. As it later turned out, the cause of the model’s death was an asthma attack complicated by a sudden cardiac arrhythmia. For her age, this is a very rare and suspicious occurrence.
9. Considered one of the first supermodels. forerunner of 1980s supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Cindy Crawford. Due to her striking resemblance to Karangi, the latter was often called Baby Gia. Gia's condition began to deteriorate in the early 80s, after he became heavily addicted to heroin. By December 1984, Gia had hit rock bottom. After pressure from her family, Gia was enrolled in a recovery program at Eagleville Hospital in Montgomery. She declared herself poor and lived on benefits. In 1986, she ended up in the hospital with signs of pneumonia. However, after examination it turned out that the model had HIV. - one of the first known women in the United States whose cause of death was openly identified as the immunodeficiency virus.
10. Jayne Mansfield was a blonde sex symbol of the 50s. She appeared on the pages of Playboy magazine more than once and stopped at nothing to achieve fame. Jane died in 1967 as a result of a car accident. The actress traveled with her boyfriend Sam Brody and three of her four children. The car in which the movie star was traveling collided with a tractor-trailer; only children survived the accident.
11. Aaliyah. American actress, singer and model. In an interview with an American publication, Aaliyah spoke about the origin of her name. “Aaliyah is an Arabic name with great power,” she said. As an actress, Aaliyah starred in the films “Romeo Must Die” and “Queen of the Damned.” The singer died on August 25, 2001, as a result of a plane crash on which she was returning from the island of Abaco, where she was filming her new video. None of the eight people on board survived.
12. Sharon Tate, a Golden Globe nominee and the wife of director Roman Polanski, was a universal favorite due to her kindness and cheerful disposition. The actress, who was eight months pregnant, and her four friends were killed by members of the Charles Manson gang. Despite the fact that Tate begged for the life of her unborn child, the killers stabbed Sharon 16 times.
13. Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was a true Hollywood icon and remains so today. With her beauty and incredible sexuality, she was able to charm President Kennedy, playwrights and athletes. No one was able to resist her charms. Marilyn Monroe died on the night of August 5, 1962 in Brentwood at the age of 36 from a lethal dose of sleeping pills. There are five versions of the cause of her death:
- a murder committed by intelligence agencies on the orders of the Kennedy brothers to avoid publicity of their sexual relations;
- murder committed by the mafia;
- drug overdose;
- suicide;
- the tragic mistake of actress Ralph Greenson's psychoanalyst, who prescribed the patient to take chloral hydrate shortly after she took Nembutal.
The morning bell woke me up...
“Hello, who is this?”
- “This is Yuri, are you going to the morgue?”
“Maybe tomorrow would be better?” As always, I'm sleepy, trying to stall for time..
- “See for yourself... tomorrow you may not get there, and then you’ll have to wait a long time...”
“Yes, of course, I’ll be there in two hours, I still need to get ready...”
“Life is the beginning of death, and death is the beginning of life”
I am met by Konstantin Evgenievich Nemirov, head of the pathology department. And as you probably already understood, today’s photo report from the “how it works” series will be about the morgue.
A morgue is a special room at hospitals and forensic medical examination institutions for storage, identification, autopsy and delivery of corpses for burial.
Mortuaries are divided into pathoanatomical (for the examination of corpses in case of death from a disease) and forensic medical (for the examination and examination of corpses in cases of violent death, when it is suspected, in the death of a patient whose identity has not been established, or in the presence of complaints from relatives about the treatment provided) .
In modern practice, the name “morgue” has been retained only for forensic medical institutions; In hospitals, autopsies are performed in pathology departments.
The morgue consists of a hall for examining corpses (sectional) and auxiliary rooms.
By the way, a pathologist deals not only with dead people, they also conduct pathological studies of “samples” from living people in order to confirm or refute the preliminary diagnosis of the attending physician. Right in front of me, Konstantin Evgenievich “refuted” one of these “diagnoses”! Now “Vasily” can live in peace, the suspicion of a cancerous tumor has been removed.
“Material” obtained from the patient is placed under this microscope for examination. If you wish, you can photograph “the whole process”, although Konstantin Evgenievich does not have special microscopes with a photography function and for this purpose he uses a “digital point-and-shoot” leaning against the microscope eyepiece!
Go ahead. Laboratory, normal working day, you can immediately get a certificate stating that you have died
And that’s why everyone is very happy about my arrival))
all sorts of jars with physical solutions.
Hall for the study of corpses
Of course, I expected to see that it would be “like in the movies,” but no, everything was simple and without any automation or glamor
opening tools are also the most ordinary, without automation or electric drive. All work, so to speak, is done manually and in the old fashioned way.
Door to the freezer for troupes..
(Photos can be enlarged if desired)
Earlier, in one of my posts, I already wrote about such “exhibits”
Project “It’s fashionable to be healthy. Stop the drugs."
So don't drink, smoke or do drugs! etc.
On the last journey
Five years have passed since Mexican President Felippe Calderon declared an all-out war on organized crime. Mass murders during the drug mafia's struggle for territory, random casualties among civilians, the inability of the police to prevent impending crimes and investigate committed ones...
The government had to act decisively to save the country from the rule of organized crime. Over the next five years, 45,000 people were deployed to fight the drug mafia and about $46 billion were spent.
However, the chaos only intensified: deprived of leaders, the gangs disintegrated into smaller groups and acted even more aggressively, and the corrupt local authorities did nothing to oppose them. The number of victims since 2006 has increased from 2,000 to 45,000 people. Drugs continued to flow into the United States.
The corpse of a man with his hands tied behind his back, the resort city of Acapulco, Mexico. . (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez, File)
Soldiers in formation before being loaded into vehicles at the Military School in Mexico City and sent to destroy plantations owned by drug cartels. In total, 45,000 police officers and soldiers and several thousand marines took part in the war against the drug mafia. According to various sources, 45,000 people died during this time, although the Mexican government stopped publishing statistics when the figure reached 35,000. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File
A soldier guards a detainee as he is shown to reporters, Tijuana, Mexico, October 18, 2010. As a result of a joint operation between the police and the army, 105 tons of marijuana were confiscated and 11 people were detained. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
Mexican Army soldiers stand near a hidden methamphetamine laboratory in Tamazul, Mexico, August 10, 2009. According to authorities, the laboratory could produce up to one ton of methamphetamine per week. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
Friends and relatives of Reyes Ricardo next to his body. Ricardo was one of 14 killed in a shootout in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz, File
A police officer runs away from the scene of an explosion in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The bomb destroyed two police cars and killed two police officers. (AP Photo, File)
Soldiers carry the coffins of their comrades who were found beheaded in Chilpancingo, Mexico. This incident was one of the most brutal in the entire war between the army and the drug mafia. (AP Photo/Claudio Cruz, File)
The bodies of two men shot near Caleta Beach in Acapulco on August 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez, File)
The mutilated body of an unknown man hangs under a bridge on the Rosarito Highway, Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File)
A cyclist rides past a police patrol in Ciudad Juarez on April 9, 2009. The war against the drug mafia launched by President Calderon led to an increase in the activity of criminals. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Funeral workers walk to a hearse after a funeral at San Rafael Cemetery in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Soldiers begin an operation to destroy drugs confiscated in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 7, 2009. About 18 tons of marijuana and 300 kg of cocaine were confiscated and burned. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
The hand of one of the corpses in a morgue where forensic experts are trying to identify bodies found in a hidden mass grave in Durango, Mexico. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, File)
Soldiers burn marijuana from Mexico's largest plantation, near San Quentin, Mexico. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, File)
A firefighter searches for bodies inside a burned-out casino in Monterrey, Mexico, August 26, 2011. Fighters from one of the drug cartels set fire to a casino, killing 52 people. President Calderon called the crime "monstrous and barbaric." (AFP PHOTO/RONALDO SCHEMIDT)
Morgue workers unload a body found in a mass grave from a car in Mexico City on April 14, 2011. Police discovered a burial site containing 6 bodies near the American border, bringing the total number of bodies found near the border to 122. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
The bodies of men with their hands tied behind their backs and their faces wrapped in duct tape lie by the roadside in Veracruz, Mexico, December 6, 2011. A total of 4 corpses were found that day in different parts of Veracruz. The battle of drug cartels for the region continues. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)
Confiscated weapons at a Ministry of Defense warehouse in Mexico City, April 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)
The reflection of police officers in the window of a taxi, inside which six bodies were found, Acapulco, Mexico, January 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Bernandino Hernandez, File)
This young man was shot and killed by unknown assailants in eastern Saltillo, Mexico, on December 7, 2011. Three men were killed in the attack, according to a statement from the state's chief spokesman. (AP Photo/Alberto Puente)
A soldier stands guard on a hilltop during mass Good Friday celebrations in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 10, 2009. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A local resident examines a pool of blood on the sidewalk, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, April 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Suspects are shown to the press in Tijuana, Mexico, March 9, 2009. The Mexican army arrested 58 people at a local party. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias, File)
Soldiers guard packages of marijuana at a warehouse in Tecate, Mexico, April 8, 2009. 297 packages weighing a total of 1,900 kg of marijuana were found. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
Crosses and photographs of people killed or kidnapped by gangs lie on the sidewalk during a demonstration in Mexico City on December 11, 2011. People demand peace and order in the city. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
Bodies awaiting autopsy in the morgue, Ciudad Juarez, February 18, 2009. Bodies in the morgues of Mexico's border cities are the “dead history” of drug cartel wars, the ferocity of which is growing every year. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias)
Graves at San Rafael Cemetery, Ciudad Juarez, April 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Students and activists protest against the drug war in Mexico City on February 17. (Jorge Dan Lopez/Reuters)
Morgue workers move a body found at a mass grave site to a mortuary in Matamoros on April 7. Security forces responding to a kidnapping call in Tamaulipas state, on the Texas border, stumbled upon pits containing 59 bodies near the ranch where criminals killed 72 migrant workers from Central and United States last year. South America. (Alexandre Meneghini/AP)
People pass by silhouettes human bodies in the city of Cuernavaca during a protest in support of the poet Javier Sicilla. Javier's dead son was found among six others killed in a car in Cuernavaca. Widespread demonstrations against President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug cartel policies, which have killed 37,000 people since 2006, were planned across the country, as well as in Buenos Aires, Paris, New York and Barcelona. (Margarito Perez/Reuters)
Mexican soldiers at the arsenal in the city of Xuitlhahuac on March 14. Soldiers found an arsenal of weapons and a training camp in the state of Veracruz. Trenches were dug on the territory of the camp, and there was a cache of 12,344 rounds of various calibers, 191 magazines, 28 grenades, and more than a dozen machine guns, including AK-47. (Sergio Hernandez/AFP/Getty Images)
Colombian Navy officials visit a confiscated smuggler's submarine at a makeshift shipyard in Timbicuy, Colombia, February 14. The submarine was used to transport eight tons of cocaine to Mexico. (Jaime Saldarriaga/Reuters)
A Homeland Security special agent in a tunnel found in a warehouse near the US-Mexico border on November 4, 2010. More than 30 tons of marijuana were found in a tunnel leading to a warehouse in Tijuana. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)
Suspects stand next to containers of methamphetamine and chemicals in Tijuana on February 12. Nine suspects working for the La Familia drug syndicate were arrested during a raid on a methamphetamine laboratory, according to Baja police. (Guillermo Arias/AP)
Police officers and journalists look at the body of a man suspended from a bridge in Morelia on March 17. A poster was tied to the body that read: “We killed him because he was a robber and kidnapped people.” Signed: “Knights of the Order of the Temple.” (Leovigildo Gonzalez/Reuters)
A federal police representative stands next to a dismembered corpse found in Acapulco in a burnt-out car next to the bodies of four people shot dead. (Pedro PARDO/AFP/Getty Images)
Marisol Valles Garcia, 20, in her new office after the inauguration ceremony as police chief of the border town of Praxedis G. Guerrero on October 20, 2010. This girl, who made it to the pages of Mexican newspapers thanks to her new position, soon quit after they began to threaten her. (Raymundo Ruiz/AP)
Bullet marks littered the grounds of the police station where Maristol Valles García used to work in Praxedis G. Guerrero on March 7. Criminology student Maristol Valles was hired as local police chief after other candidates were afraid to apply for the dangerous position. (Gael Gonzalez/Reuters)
Students pose for photos in front of burning drugs at a military base in Ciudad Juarez on March 2. Students were invited to watch the burning of 1,500 kilograms of drugs seized during raids over the past few months. (Gael Gonzalez/Reuters)
"Warriors" provide humanitarian aid to residents of a poor area of Ciudad Juarez on January 23. These women on pink motorcycles are distributing food and medicine to the poor in one of the most dangerous cities in the world. This is their sign of protest against violence. Challenging drug cartels, the women travel every Sunday to poor areas of the city on the border with El Paso, Texas. (Gael Gonzalez/Reuters)
Musicians on an empty Papagayo beach in Acapulco on January 15. Acapulco was once a temple of international tourism, but now the city's reputation is hopelessly damaged due to the wars that have unfolded between drug traffickers. (Alexandre Meneghini/AP)
Keychains in a souvenir shop in Acapulco. (Alexandre Meneghini/AP)
The sculpture “Cocaine Man” by Mexican artist Emiliano Gironella at the exhibition “Mexico al Filo” (“Mexico to the end”) at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. The exhibition featured works related to the drug world and the violence associated with it. (Alfredo EstrellaAFP/Getty Images)
17. A policeman holds a jar of urine while taking tests in Guadeloupe. 550 police officers were tested for the presence of narcotic substances in their bodies after the military detained two police officers on suspicion of assisting criminal gangs. (Tomas Bravo/Reuters)
Sarah Reis in the tent where she lives with her family, outside the prosecutor's office in Ciudad Juarez. Last year, two of Reis' children and grandson were killed after the military was accused of human rights abuses during raids on criminal gangs. Armed people burned the Reis house and threw the bodies of the dead near the city. (Gael Gonzalez/Reuters)
The corpses of a woman and her granddaughter on the floor of a house in Acapulco. As a result of the brutal crime, the woman's second granddaughter also died. (Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images)
Firefighters battle a supermarket fire after a shootout between soldiers and criminals in Acapulco on April 4. As a result of the shootout, a soldier and two drug dealers were killed, and the supermarket and the adjacent cinema and shops were destroyed. (Bernandino Hernandez/AP)
Night in Tijuana. (©Nadav Neuhaus)
Following the Juarez killings, police sealed off the area and took control of it on December 20, 2008. (©Nadav Neuhaus)
Former convict, gang member and confessed killer Pedro Martin Nunez (center in white T-shirt) led a service at the Ciudad Juarez Christian church he now runs. (©Nadav Neuhaus)
A girl is afraid to enter an apartment riddled with bullets, March 6, 2009. Thus, the drug syndicate wanted to send a warning to the owner of the house. (©Nadav Neuhaus)
A man digs a grave for the upcoming funeral of a slain police officer in Juarez. (©Nadav Neuhaus)
Grieving relatives attend the funeral of a Mexican policeman killed by a drug syndicate. (©Nadav Neuhaus)