The Siege of Ciudad Juárez
Eros Hoagland for TIME
Mayor
The city's top official, Jose Reyes Ferriz, has received death threats from gangs. He has given himself the difficult task of purging the city's corrupt, 1,600-member police force. "We have no choice left," he says.
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