Cheap, abundant, deadly

Mexico has emerged as a major player in the world heroin trade, and it now trails only Afghanistan in poppy production. Heroin poppies are grown primarily in the Sinaloa, Michoacana and Guerrero states of southwest Mexico.

March 23, 2014 at 2:45AM
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