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Men dressed as tigers battle with ropes in Zitlala, Guerrero state, Mexico, May 5, 2017. Every year, inhabitants of this town participate in a ceremony to ask for a good harvest and plenty of rain, at the end of the ceremony men battle each other dressed as tigers. "The inhabitants of this place have the belief, that through this sacrifice the land is bonanza and it gives fruitful crops, there is a lot of corn, a lot of chickpea, in this way they celebrate this ritual that It is called Atzatziliztli. In October 2017 around 600 hundred schools closed in consequence of the violence that residents of Zitlala, Chilapa, Jose Joaqu?n de Herrera and Ahuacuotzingo lived. The graph of the number of homicides for each month is as follows: January 165 murders, February 175, March 210, April 189, May 216, June 206, July 191, August 188, September 186 and during the month of October 120. This hasn't stopped inhabitants of Zitlala to ask for a good harvest trying to avoid the violence that increase each year on this part of the Mexican republic. (05/05/17 - Zitlala Guerrero, Mexico).