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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.
    Ciudad_Neza_01.jpg
  • Portrait of a woman during an illegal drag race competition at the night in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 13, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_21.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_16.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_14.jpg
  • Portrait of a man who works like scavenger in the garbage dump in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, January 20, 2012.
    Ciudad_Neza_11.jpg
  • A woman sells female underwear in one of the 45 informal markets that are placed by the streets of Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 31, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_05.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_12.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_17.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_19.jpg
  • A man makes a tattoo in the shoulder of other one into a tattoo study in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 11, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_07.jpg
  • Portrait of a young man with piercings on his face in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 31, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_06.jpg
  • A young woman travels by motorcycle at night as part of her fifteenth birthday celebration in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, April 2, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_30.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_18.jpg
  • Two young men practice dance choreographies at an academy while their friends watch them in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, April 7, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_25.jpg
  • A group supports to the Toros Neza soccer team during a game in the Neza 86 Stadium in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 13, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_13.jpg
  • A young woman dances with some friends during her fifteenth birthday celebration in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, April 2, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_29.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_22.jpg
  • A dancer during her show inside a nightclub in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 31, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_24.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_20.jpg
  • A man wears a mask during his rounds on motorcycle in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, April 2, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_08.jpg
  • A boy plays with a ball in a basketball court. The public places and sport places are few in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 29, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_02.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_28.jpg
  • A young man teaches dance choreographies for a women group for a fifteenth birthday party in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, June 28, 2012.
    Ciudad_Neza_26.jpg
  • A young man sharpens a knife in a motorcycles workshop in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 30, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_09.jpg
  • Two youth sell clothes at an informal market in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 14, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_04.jpg
  • Students gather with friends at the streets in the evening in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 29, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_03.jpg
  • 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.
    Ciudad_Neza_23.jpg
  • A horse tries to pull a tumbril among the garbage in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 28, 2011.
    Ciudad_Neza_10.jpg
  • A Honduran immigrant smokes a cigarette and cover himself from the raining with a piece of cardboard while waits beside of the railroad to climb "the beast" or "train of death", referring to the freight train where thousands of migrants travel with the intention of reaching to United States, in State of Mexico, Mexico, August 20, 2008.
    Migration_Mexico_RC_10.jpg
  • A migrant picks up a piece of cardboard that will use later to protect himself from the cold while travels at top of train, in State of Mexico, Mexico, May 20, 2008.
    Migration_Mexico_RC_16.jpg
  • Central American migrants gather around a campfire to warm their hands while wait the departure time of the train to continue their journey to the north, in State of Mexico, Mexico, September 20, 2008.
    Migration_Mexico_RC_09.jpg
  • A group of migrants gather beside train tracks under a bridge near to Mexico City where they have to bear the cold at dawn and be alert when train is getting close, in State of Mexico, Mexico, September 20, 2008.
    Migration_Mexico_RC_28.jpg
  • A migrant climb up to the train in movement. Migrants fall down on the train tracks frequently and suffer serious injuries where lose their legs, arms, even their lives, in State of Mexico, Mexico, May 20, 2008.
    Migration_Mexico_RC_14.jpg
  • Muxes during the celebration of the vela Muxe. The velas are celebrations that take place in the region of the Itsmo of Tehuantepec, in the state of Oaxaca, where they eat, drink and dance.<br />
<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_01.jpg
  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A man in an opium poppy field hidden in a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
    20150805_124.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_14.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, during the annual party known as the Muxe Candle in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_13.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, during a mass in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_23.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, during the annual party known as the Muxe Candle in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_10.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, and her mother Ofelia Linares Sanchéz, 49, in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_16.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, and her mother Ofelia Linares Sanchéz, 49, in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_15.jpg
  • Angelo Martinez Linares, 24, during the annual party known as the Muxe Candle in Juchitán, Mexico.<br />
<br />
In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_09.jpg
  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Opium poppy flowers in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
    20150805_265.jpg
  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Opium poppy flowers in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
    20150805_240.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_20.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_08.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_19.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_17.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_04.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_25.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_22.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_03.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_12.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_11.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_02.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_24.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_21.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_18.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_07.jpg
  • In Juchitán in the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight, the locals make room for a third category, whom they call “muxes”.<br />
<br />
Muxes are men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned netherworld between the two genders. “Muxe” is a Zapotec word derived from the Spanish “mujer” or woman; it is reserved for males who, from boyhood, have felt themselves drawn to living as a woman, anticipating roles set out for them by the community.<br />
<br />
They are considered hard workers that will forever stay by their mothers side, taking care for their families operating as mothers without children of their own.<br />
<br />
Not all muxes express they identities the same way. Some dress as women and take hormones to change their bodies. Others favor male clothes. What they share is that the community accepts them.
    Muxes_Rodrigo_Cruz_06.jpg
  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: View of the mountains surrounding to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. The opium poppy is sowing in sheer places for not to be located, Mexico. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: View of the mountains surrounding to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. The opium poppy is sowing in sheer places for not to be located, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 4, 2015: Jose Luis Garcia, 28, and his family inside of his house in the community of El Calvario. This village is located nearby to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, and almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Opium poppy flowers in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A man in an opium poppy field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A man touches an opium poppy flower in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: A man shows how the opium poppy pod is scratched to extract the crude opium, in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Opium poppy flower in a field hidden into a gully in the mountains close to the Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.  Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 4, 2015: A boy in the community of El Calvario, near to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. Almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Three young men in the community of El Calvario, near to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. Almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 4, 2015: Angelica Guerrero, 15, (left) plays with her brother in the community of El Calvario, near to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero. Almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • El CALVARIO, MEXICO - AUGUST 5, 2015: Jose Luis Garcia, 28, is a farmer and lives with his wife and children in the community of El Calvario. This village is located nearby to Chilpancingo city, the capital of the state of Guerrero, and almost all its population work in the sowing of opium poppy as unique way to survive economically. Rodrigo Cruz for The New York Times
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  • Lilian Leon trains in Zapotecas hill in Cholula, belonging to State of Puebla. Mexico
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  • La Esperanza, an indigenous people that lives from agriculture and commerce, is located in the state of Guerrero, in southern Mexico.<br />
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In the indigenous Nahua community of La Esperanza in Mexico, people maintain the tradition of fighting to ask for rain and obtaining a good harvest season. The people of La Esperanza and nearby communities gather in the afternoon in the middle of a field of sowing set up as a battlefield. Men and women fight with their fists and the blows are aimed at the face. His blood represents the fertility of the earth and when it falls into the furrows it becomes the sacred liquid that will germinate the corn plant.
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  • At morning, a migrant shaves his face before to leave the shelter where the migrants stay for some days for resting. Many shelters across Mexico help to the migrants during their journey to reach to United States. Arriaga, Mexico, January 20, 2008.
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  • The Suchiate River in the border of Mexico and Guatemala is the black market point between both countries, and also allows the crossing of thousands of Central American migrants who have the goal of reaching to United States, in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, January 24, 2008.
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  • A migrant calls his family in a shelter and asks for money to continue his journey to the United States in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, on October 5, 2008.
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  • Inside of the Casa del Migrante Scalabrini, three Honduran migrants observe in a Mexico’s map the route to reach the United States, in Tapachula, Mexico, February 22, 2013.
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  • Luis Tomas Marthen Torres, a warlock, performs a ritual of protection to Julisa del Carmen in the town of Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico, Oct. 19, 2011. In the midst of a violent streak in the state of Veracruz, witchery protection against extortion and help locating kidnapped kin have become the leading demands from clients, practitioners say. (Rodrigo Cruz/The New York Times)
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  • A man watches through a hole the movements of the U.S. Border Patrol and overnight waits patiently for the right moment to jump up the wall that separates Mexico from the United States, on November 11, 2009 in Tijuana, Mexico.
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  • Two people walk by a dirt road beside the fence and border wall Mexico -U.S. The new border fence in the border between Mexico and US, has watchtowers and video cameras capable of recording at night, this makes the traffic in arms and drugs is more difficult, and even more for immigrants attempting to cross into the United States, in Tijuana, Mexico, on March 3, 2009.
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