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In this April 11, 2014 photo, actor Raul Briones rests in a boxing gym as visitors watch a video on the history and significance of boxing to the Tepito neighborhood of Mexico City. One visitor, Christian Pimentel, who works in marketing and lives in a middle-class neighborhood of the capital, said he had gone shopping in Tepito during the daytime with his family as a kid, but always believed it too dangerous to visit after sundown. "The play helped me see there are good people in Tepito, there are kind people, people struggling to improve their situation." (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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In this April 11, 2014 photo, Martin Camarillo, 35, who was paralyzed by a bullet when he was 19, calls out greetings to neighbors as he and actor Raul Briones lead visitors on a tour of his neighborhood in Tepito, Mexico City. As part of the "Safari in Tepito" theater project, Camarillo welcomes the audience into his bedroom, barely big enough for his bunk bed, and exchanges thoughts with Briones about fatherhood. Camarillo talks about having to accept that he can never have a child and talked about his own father’s alcoholism, womanizing and domestic abuse. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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In this April 11, 2014 photo, photographs and keepsakes are wedged between the top bunk mattress and bed frame in the bedroom of Martin Camarillo, 35, during a theater show in Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood. Organizers and attendees of the theater project reject the idea they are exploiting the residents’ lives for their own entertainment, saying “Safari in Tepito” aims to increase understanding of the poor in a country where nearly 50 percent of the population lives below the poverty line. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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In this April 11, 2014 photo, Lourdes Ruiz laughs as she performs outside the Fortaleza housing complex where she lives in Mexico City's Tepito neighborhood. Ruiz is one of four local residents who teamed up with professional actors to write and perform fictionalized renditions of scenes from their own lives, dealing with themes such as child abandonment, violence, sexual abuse, hope, female strength and love. Ruiz, a vendor, is known as the queen of "albur," a word-play based on sexual double entendres. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
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Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain listens during the sentencing for Amanda Redman on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 in Jackson, Mich. Redman, who lost custody of her other children, was sentenced to at least two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the death of her infant. (AP Photo/The Jackson Citizen Patriot, J. Scott Park) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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Amanda Redman reacts as she is sentenced before Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 in Jackson, Mich. Redman, who lost custody of her other children, was sentenced to at least two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the death of her infant. (AP Photo/The Jackson Citizen Patriot, J. Scott Park) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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Amanda Redman reacts as she is sentenced before Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 in Jackson, Mich. Redman, who lost custody of her other children, was sentenced to at least two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the death of her infant. (AP Photo/The Jackson Citizen Patriot, J. Scott Park) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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Amanda Redman reacts as she is sentenced before Jackson County Circuit Judge John McBain on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 in Jackson, Mich. Redman, who lost custody of her other children, was sentenced to at least two years in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the death of her infant. (AP Photo/The Jackson Citizen Patriot, J. Scott Park) ALL LOCAL TV OUT; LOCAL TV INTERNET OUT
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President Barack Obama walks down the stairs of Air Force One, upon arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Wednesday, April 16, 2014, after returning from a trip to Pennsylvania. Emphasizing skills training as key to a growing middle class, Obama on Wednesday announced $600 million in competitive grants to spur creation of targeted training and apprenticeship programs to help people land good-paying jobs. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
