The Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis
For decades, farmers in the most marginalised regions of Mexico have depended for survival on the illicit cultivation of opium poppy for the US heroin market. In 2017 they could earn up to 20,000 pesos ($950–$1,050 dollars) per kilo of opium, which channelled around 19 billion pesos ($1 billion doll...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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LSE Press
2019-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Illicit Economies and Development |
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| Online Access: | https://jied.lse.ac.uk/articles/45 |