“It all began back in the 1980s, when the place began to fill up with people from other areas who were looking for work in the capital.
Iztapalapa, one of the toughest districts of Mexico City, which has a similar population, recorded a relatively modest 198 homicides last year.
Ecatepec’s mayor, Indalecio Ríos, admits that the city has a problem.
They must be home before 9pm, they say, because after dark, the streets of Ecatepec are even more dangerous.
The murder rate in Los Bordos has risen dramatically in the last 10 years: from 198 in 2006, to 516 in 2015, higher than those in the states of Chiapas, Colima, Durango, Morelos, or Coahuila.
Fuente original: Poverty in Mexico: The daily struggle for life in Ecatepec, Mexico’s most dangerous city | In English | EL PAÍS
