The Mexican Museum drugs

In Mexico City, there is a museum, which previously were occupied by the military, diplomats and cadets to prepare for the drug war. Now the museum is open to the Mexican authorities, foreign diplomats, cadets and graduates of some journalists, but ordinary people access to the museum is closed.

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1. Samples of various drugs, including marijuana, in all its forms, cocaine and methamphetamine are in glass flasks with the appropriate inscriptions. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)





2. The illuminated the 3-D map shows the areas of drug trafficking in the United States from the south. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



3. Captain Claudio Montaigne - curator of the museum - shows a large mural at the entrance to the Museum of drugs showing drug war. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



4. The display at the museum shows how the traffickers managed to squeeze marijuana into the boat. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



5. The memory of a German Shepherd named Zayaki, who died in 2008, immortalized in a museum. This dog has found 3,628 kilograms of marijuana and other drugs. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



6. Here's how to lay the drugs in cans of food and drinks. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



7. The gun of one of the members of the cartel. This 9-milimmetrovom gun with a bronze handle, lined with diamond initials LMJ. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



8. The diorama shows the police and military, blocked roads during the capture of drug traffickers. Over the past three years, the Mexican military seized 443 aircraft, 14,622 cars and 43,118 weapons, including bazookas and grenades. Claudio Montaigne said that soldiers and police seized 113 990 520 dollars in cash. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



9. Drugs hidden in the frame of the painting of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Nine of these icons were found during the inspection of a passenger bus in Sonora, Mexico. It was finally seized 49 kg of marijuana. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



10. This section of the museum tells about the relationship of certain religions and drug trafficking. At one of the stands a bust of Jesus Malverde. According to legend, Malverde - the robber with a big road - was killed by the authorities in 1909. He is the patron saint of drug traffickers and Robin Hood for the poor. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



11. exquisitely engraved machine hangs on the wall of the museum. From 1976 to 2009, 636 Mexican soldiers were killed in a shootout with drug cartels - 133 of them were killed in the past three years. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



12. diorama life-size, representing farmers, protecting their crops. Diorama accompanied by a tape recording of narco-corrida - popular ballads about drug traffickers. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



13. In this diorama depicts a military helicopter, destroying a field of marijuana. (Sarah L. Voisin-Washington Post)



14. A device for drying the marijuana in the home was found during a police raid and is now on display at the museum.



15. Samples of various drugs, including cocaine, are glass instruments with the appropriate stickers. "With this we would like to say - says Claudio Montaigne - that drugs in Mexico are many human lives. We want people to know what a fierce fight against drugs is conducted here in Mexico. "



16. This stand showing various devices such as intricate tube used in the manufacture and use of drugs. "The idea is to show the history of drugs, various methods for their preparation, our operations and efforts to counter the spread of destructive substances, as well as lifestyle of drug dealers, social phenomenon of narco-culture" - says the curator of the museum.



17. Various guns seized from cartel members. The gun in the center of marijuana and opium etched.



18. Mannequin with pockets full of money is in the section of the museum, which aims to familiarize with the drug culture.



19. All in the same room of the drug culture: the dummy drug mafia member stands at the glass case with seized from drug barons and arms.



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