Abandoned home

A member of the Mexican federal police inspects an abandoned home during a tour of a ghost pueblo in Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero state, on Mexico's Pacific Coast. Extortion, threats and killings carried out by a group of heavily armed drug cartel members have emptied out more than 20 small villages in the mountains between the tourist resorts of Acapulco and Ixtapa.
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( Richard Fausset / Los Angeles Times )

A member of the Mexican federal police inspects an abandoned home during a tour of a ghost pueblo in Tecpan de Galeana, Guerrero state, on Mexico's Pacific Coast. Extortion, threats and killings carried out by a group of heavily armed drug cartel members have emptied out more than 20 small villages in the mountains between the tourist resorts of Acapulco and Ixtapa.

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