With the ongoing drug war tearing apart Mexico, it’s Northern border with the USA has been for decades now a strategic location in order to pass drugs and migrants into the USA, making the area a highly lucrative spot in Mexicali, Baja California , Mexico, March 28, 2023. In recent years, Mexico has seen an intense rise in drug consumption within its population group, which is a new phenomenon as Mexicans were not known for drug use. Photographer: Jonathan Alpeyrie/Sipa Press