MEXICO. Ayahualtempa, Guererro. 2024. .22 calibre rifle. Members of Guererro’s auto defensas (self-defence units), armed with only .22 calibre rifles and 20, 16, and .410 gauge shotguns against drug cartel machineguns. It is unsafe for any person, most of whom are indigenous Nahua, to leave town. Thirty-five persons have been killed since 2015. Very few of Guererro’s eighty-one municipalities have remained resistant and organized. Some members, understandably, chose not to be photographed. Others chose to be.