MEXICO. 2018. Photographs of people hang in an image of a virgin in the Basicilica of Guadalupe. Thousands of people come every December 12th to ask for miracles for their loved ones. In a country without law the people try to find and solve their issues praying in their beliefs.

The country’s murder rate has more than doubled to 26 per 100,000 residents, five times the U.S. figure.

Because the missing aren’t counted as part of the country’s official murder tally, it is likely Mexico’s rate itself is higher.

The killing and the number of missing grow each year. Last year, 5,500 people disappeared, up from 3,400 in 2015. Mexico’s murders are up another 18% through September of 2018.