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TIJUANA, MEXICO: MARCH 9, 2009: After major arrests at a Narco Fiesta, the Military presented the bust to the media -- 58 people, scores of weapons and ammunition were recovered and presented inside the Mexican Military Headquarters in Tijuana,…

TIJUANA, MEXICO: MARCH 9, 2009: Reflection of a Federal Police Agent outside the Mexican Military Headquarters where there was a presentation of arrested drug traffickers to the media in Tijuana, Mexico on March 9, 2009. Tijuana is one of the major…

Traffic jam in Osh streets, south Kyrgyzstan.

In Osh sreet, south Kyrgyzstan, during an electricity cut a poor homeless family is burning paperboard to warm themselves. Because of energy crisis, electric cuts occurs very regularly all over the country.

A drug addict just after he injected himself an heroin dose. In Kyrgyzstan, an heroin dose costs less than 2Û.

A man is drinking a glass of vodka. He works at the Lev Tolsto• street labour market (nicknamed the unemployment people street). In winter he lives underground close to the hot water pipelines that warms this space. Sometime police takes them and…

A young child, from a migrant family, plays in the snow where he lives in an old disused brick factory in a Bishkek suburb.

Motivated by the energy crisis and coal rising prize, some men are trying to repair an old in ruins coal factory dating from the soviet time.

Lev Tolstoy street in Bishkek, nicknamed 'the street of the unemployed' since poor day labourers from the provinces, such as Kurman (right), come here to work for around 5 Euros a day. Today he hasn't found any work and says he would be ready to work…

Coal Mine in Min Kush. During the 60s and 70s, Min Kush was a prosperous city living from Uranium mining. As a symbol of the whole country, it is now a deserted very poor village of 2500 people (before 20 000) totally polluted by Uranium wastes.…