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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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  • 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 horse tries to pull a tumbril among the garbage in Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, March 28, 2011.
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  • Two women fight in the center of a circle made up of the same women who attend the ritual fight. Nobody intervenes in the fights, the only way to finish is to surrender.<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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