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Ciudad Neza

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Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl is the most populous municipality in Mexico. 1 million 110 thousand 565 people live in just 63 square kilometers according to the last census of Population and Housing of 2010 by the National Institute of Geography, Statistics and Informatics of Mexico. Even so, there are almost not people on the streets. Ciudad Neza has to deal with the stigma of being a violent and marginal zone. The violence between youth remains as a stigma among its inhabitants. The cultural activities are increasing; most of people have to travel to Mexico City to work or even to study. People seek ways to get an income through street markets placed by the streets of the town, family industries, garages, bars, and even clandestine nightclubs are increasing.

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  • Aerial view of Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl where 1 million 110 thousand 565 people live in just 63 square kilometers, being the most populous municipality in Mexico, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 17, 2011.
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  • A boy plays with a ball in a basketball court. The public places and sport places are few in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 29, 2011.
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  • Students gather with friends at the streets in the evening in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 29, 2011.
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  • Two youth sell clothes at an informal market in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 14, 2011.
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  • A woman sells female underwear in one of the 45 informal markets that are placed by the streets of Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 31, 2011.
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  • Portrait of a young man with piercings on his face in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 31, 2011.
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  • A man makes a tattoo in the shoulder of other one into a tattoo study in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 11, 2011.
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  • A man wears a mask during his rounds on motorcycle in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, April 2, 2011.
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  • A young man sharpens a knife in a motorcycles workshop in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 30, 2011.
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  • A horse tries to pull a tumbril among the garbage in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 28, 2011.
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  • Portrait of a man who works like scavenger in the garbage dump in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, January 20, 2012.
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  • A soccer player of Toros Neza team into the locker room after finishing the training. Toros Neza team is a professional soccer team that plays in the first division of Mexican soccer in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 30, 2011.
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  • A group supports to the Toros Neza soccer team during a game in the Neza 86 Stadium in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 13, 2011.
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  • A wrestler adjust his mask after have suffered a fall in the ring. The street shows like wrestling attract public of any age in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, November 27, 2009.
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  • Ana Maria Torres nacio en Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl. Ahora es campeona del mundo y recientemente inauguro un gimnasio de box para ayudar a los jóvenes a dejar las drogas, el 07 de abril de 2011, en Ciudad Neza, Mexico.
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  • Ana Maria Torres Ramirez during her training in Mexico City, April 7, 2011. Ana Maria is well known as La Guerrera in the boxing circuit; she is one of most prominent athlete from Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl. She is world champion and maintains a gym where trains inexpensively children and youth from the community.
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  • A group works inside a house of clothes dressmaking. The economic activity is informal mainly and people work behind closed doors to avoid taxes payment due to the large-scale production in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 17, 2009.
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  • A woman works copying the registered marks of clothes to sell like copies at large scale. Most people work informally into their houses, in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 17, 2009.
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  • Garbage residues from one of 45 informal markets that are placed by the streets. The trade is the main economic activity and around 25,000 people are involved in this activity in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 28, 2011.
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  • A man gives the start signal for two cars competing in speed illegal racing through the streets at midnight in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 13, 2011.
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  • Portrait of a woman during an illegal drag race competition at the night in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 13, 2011.
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  • A table dance manager performs a ritual with fire to attract lucky and money for his business during working hours in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 31, 2011.
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  • A dancer walks above some symbols used in a ritual to attract lucky and money during working hours at a lap-dancing club in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 31, 2011.
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  • A dancer during her show inside a nightclub in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 31, 2011.
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  • Two young men practice dance choreographies at an academy while their friends watch them in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, April 7, 2011.
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  • A young man teaches dance choreographies for a women group for a fifteenth birthday party in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, June 28, 2012.
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  • A couple dances inside a nightclub in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 12, 2011.
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  • A young woman adjusts his sport shoes before to go to the dance floor during her fifteenth birthday celebration in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, April 2, 2011.
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  • A young woman dances with some friends during her fifteenth birthday celebration in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, April 2, 2011.
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  • A young woman travels by motorcycle at night as part of her fifteenth birthday celebration in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, April 2, 2011.
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