Facing increased economic hardship, poppy-growing communities in southwest Mexico want to join a state program offering alternative projects, but this would only be a first step that cannot tackle all ...

President Enrique Peña Nieto has yet to release updated numbers on the estimated land used to grow opium poppy in Mexico, data which would be of great interest to US authorities given booming heroin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A soldier stands guard beside poppy plants before a poppy field is destroyed during a military operation in the municipality of ...

EL DURAZNO, Mexico — Mexico's heroin industry has had a bullish few years, and for traffickers the outlook is as uplifting as the scarlet, orange and yellow poppy flowers from which the narcotic is ...

MEXICO CITY – Opium poppy plantations cover tens of thousands of acres in Mexico, concentrated in nine states along the Pacific coast, including Guerrero, Sinaloa and Nayarit. It’s the main source of ...

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