TRT: Violence over opium crops plagues Mexico’s Guerrero state
The western Mexican state of Guerrero is one of the most prolific producers of opium in the world.
In a region of Mexico that has become the world's third most prolific producer of opium, a wave of violence has engulfed the mountain communities, instigating a fight back from the local communities.
In the remote mountains of Guerrero state, opium poppies are the cash crop, and intense cartel competition to secure the harvest has led to a wave of violence that has displaced entire communities from their ancestral homelands.
Violence has spiked in the state over the past decade as a growing number of criminal gangs vie for control of crops of opium poppies and for drug-trafficking routes.
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WNU Editor: I do not see the light at the end of this tunnel for Mexico on this crisis.
3 comments:
There is a solution. The only solution there has ever been to the violence caused by the War on Drugs: Legalize and Regulate.
Like the Dutch who are rolling it back?
Like ending the prohibition of alcohol. Take away the black market and you take away the profits that drive the violence.
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