The scene of a shooting in Culiacan, Sinaloa, shows what Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’ looks like at the ground level.

John Gibler lives and writes in Mexico. He is the author of Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt (City Lights, 2009), To Die in Mexico: ... Dispatches From Inside the Drug War (City Lights, 2011), 20 poemas para ser leídos en una balacera (Sur+, 2012), Tzompaxtle: La fuga de un guerrillero (Tusquets, 2014) and Una historia oral de la infamia (Penguin RandomHouse and Sur+, 2016).
The scene of a shooting in Culiacan, Sinaloa, shows what Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’ looks like at the ground level.