Thirty-four photos illustrating Mexico's drug war from the Boston Globe, at http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/03/mexicos_drug_war.html. Warning - unlike most of the Boston Globe site's photos that I have provided links to in the past, these particular ones are not beautiful or amazing. They are frightening.
This one is beautiful, but still oddly disturbing. I'd heard about the border wall, but didn't know what it looked like. Here it is (click on it to enlarge and see the whole photo):
Caption on the photo: "A recently constructed section of the controversial US-Mexico border fence expansion project crosses previously pristine desert sands at sunrise on March 14, 2009 between Yuma, Arizona and Calexico, California. The new barrier between the US and Mexico stands 15 feet tall and sits on top of the sand so it can lifted by a machine and repositioned whenever the migrating desert dunes begin to bury it. The almost seven miles of floating fence cost about $6 million per mile to build. (David McNew/Getty Images)"The comments after the photos are mostly thoughtful, worth sampling if you have the time.
Later edit: There were about 120 comments when I wrote the above. I went back to read later comments. The discussion has deteriorated. Sorry about that.
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