Talk about dirty work!   via reuterspictures: a Mexican sewer diver clears blockages and repairs the city’s drainage system about 4 times every month, and has found dead humans, horses, weapons and car parts among other things. Photo by Edgard Garrido of Reuters
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Talk about dirty work!  

via reuterspictures: a Mexican sewer diver clears blockages and repairs the city’s drainage system about 4 times every month, and has found dead humans, horses, weapons and car parts among other things. 

Photo by Edgard Garrido of Reuters

As a photojournalist living and working in Ciudad Juarez I’m used to seeing dead people being picked up off the streets. The last few years have been brutal, with violence and shoot-outs every day and dead people everywhere. But it is much calmer now and corpses lying in puddles of blood are not as common a sight as they used to be. Nevertheless, some weeks ago I drove through a neighborhood and saw a couple of men dressed in hooded, white coveralls picking up another kind of corpse: a dead dog. They threw it into a container pulled by a truck and when they took off I started to follow them. They stopped every so often, picking up another dead dog from the streets and throwing it into the container. They were collecting a lot of dead animals and when I approached the truck, I could see that there was a whole pile of them. PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG: The lost dogs of Ciudad Juarez
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As a photojournalist living and working in Ciudad Juarez I’m used to seeing dead people being picked up off the streets.

The last few years have been brutal, with violence and shoot-outs every day and dead people everywhere. But it is much calmer now and corpses lying in puddles of blood are not as common a sight as they used to be.

Nevertheless, some weeks ago I drove through a neighborhood and saw a couple of men dressed in hooded, white coveralls picking up another kind of corpse: a dead dog. They threw it into a container pulled by a truck and when they took off I started to follow them.

They stopped every so often, picking up another dead dog from the streets and throwing it into the container. They were collecting a lot of dead animals and when I approached the truck, I could see that there was a whole pile of them.

PHOTOGRAPHER’S BLOG: The lost dogs of Ciudad Juarez

VIDEO: Drug-smuggling tunnel discovered in Mexico

Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not. Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney’s birth certificate released to Reuters by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certificate says, was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947. His mother, Lenore, was born in Utah and his father, former Michigan governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate George Romney, was born in Mexico. READ MORE: Romney’s birth certificate evokes father’s controversy
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Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not.

Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy of Romney’s birth certificate released to Reuters by his campaign. Willard Mitt Romney, the certificate says, was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947.

His mother, Lenore, was born in Utah and his father, former Michigan governor and one-time Republican presidential candidate George Romney, was born in Mexico.

READ MORE: Romney’s birth certificate evokes father’s controversy

Marco Avila, a reporter in Sonora, Mexico was buried over the weekend after being found in a black garbage bag.  He’s the sixth current or former journalist killed in Mexico in less than a month. Considering the number of gruesome atrocities committed by the country’s drug cartels (the latest being the 49 decapitated, hand-less, foot-less bodies found on the side of a highway), it makes sense that the people covering the news in these areas have become targets too.  [Photo: REUTERS/Stringer] THE ATLANTIC WIRE: Being a journalist in Mexico can be deadly
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Marco Avila, a reporter in Sonora, Mexico was buried over the weekend after being found in a black garbage bag. 

He’s the sixth current or former journalist killed in Mexico in less than a month. Considering the number of gruesome atrocities committed by the country’s drug cartels (the latest being the 49 decapitated, hand-less, foot-less bodies found on the side of a highway), it makes sense that the people covering the news in these areas have become targets too. 

[Photo: REUTERS/Stringer]

THE ATLANTIC WIRE: Being a journalist in Mexico can be deadly

People are silhouetted during an annular eclipse in Ciudad Juarez May 20, 2012. The sun and moon aligned over the earth in a rare astronomical event - an annular eclipse that dimmed the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez  PHOTOS: The best photos over the past 24 hours and more
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People are silhouetted during an annular eclipse in Ciudad Juarez May 20, 2012. The sun and moon aligned over the earth in a rare astronomical event - an annular eclipse that dimmed the skies over parts of Asia and North America, briefly turning the sun into a blazing ring of fire. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez 

PHOTOS: The best photos over the past 24 hours and more

Suspected drug cartel killers in Mexico dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey, a sickening atrocity that prompted the government to condemn the “inhuman” violence plaguing the country. The corpses of 43 men and six women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez early on Sunday, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said. The Nuevo Leon government said the notorious Zetas drug gang had claimed responsibility for the bloodbath, one of the worst to hit Mexico during its struggle against the powerful cartels. The massacre follows several other mass slayings in Mexico. Many have occurred in the north, where the Zetas have waged a war against rival groups for control of smuggling routes into the United States, the biggest market for illicit drugs. READ MORE: 49 headless corpses found in northern Mexico
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Suspected drug cartel killers in Mexico dumped 49 headless bodies on a highway near the northern city of Monterrey, a sickening atrocity that prompted the government to condemn the “inhuman” violence plaguing the country.

The corpses of 43 men and six women, whose hands and feet had also been cut off, were found in a pile on a highway in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez early on Sunday, officials from the state of Nuevo Leon said.

The Nuevo Leon government said the notorious Zetas drug gang had claimed responsibility for the bloodbath, one of the worst to hit Mexico during its struggle against the powerful cartels.

The massacre follows several other mass slayings in Mexico. Many have occurred in the north, where the Zetas have waged a war against rival groups for control of smuggling routes into the United States, the biggest market for illicit drugs.

READ MORE: 49 headless corpses found in northern Mexico

Wal-Mart’s alleged reliance on bribes to expand its presence in Mexico destroys local businesses, labor markets and the reputation of the U.S. as a fair player, according to “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” author John Perkins.

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Pope Benedict XVI wears a traditional Mexican hat while being driven through a crowd before officiating mass in Silao March 25, 2012. [REUTERS/Edgard Garrido] Read more: Pope condemns drug trade, corruption in Mexico
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Pope Benedict XVI wears a traditional Mexican hat while being driven through a crowd before officiating mass in Silao March 25, 2012. [REUTERS/Edgard Garrido]

Read more: Pope condemns drug trade, corruption in Mexico

New video: The inside of the Thomson Reuters office building in Mexico City after a major 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck 120 miles east of Acapulco on Mexico’s Pacific coast. The USGS located the epicenter of the quake at 15 miles east of Ometepec in Guerrero state at a depth of 10.9 miles.

Latest news: Big earthquake strikes Mexico, few damage reports