A family’s grief
The day after three mothers and six children were killed in
northern Mexico on Nov. 4, photographer César Rodríguez
arrived to chronicle the aftermath at their homes in La Mora.
The victims were related—all U.S. citizens and members of a
Mormon community that has lived there for generations—and
officials said they may have been mistaken for rivals of the
drug cartel that killed them. “They wanted this tragedy to be
known,” Rodríguez tells TIME. “They wanted things to change
in this country.” In this picture, loved ones of Christina Langford
Johnson, one of the murdered women, watch as her body is
carried away by helicopter.
Photographs by César Rodríguez—El País
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