| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | War on Drugs
On The Hunt For Poppies In Mexico — America's Biggest Heroin Supplier
On The Hunt For Poppies In Mexico — America's Biggest Heroin Supplier
The mountains looming ahead are legendary in Mexico.
"Whether it was Morelos or Zapata, any figure in Mexican history who needed to escape authorities came here to the mountains of Guerrero," says Lt. Col. Juan Jose Orzua Padilla, the Mexican army spokesman in this region.
Today, it's not revolutionaries skulking through this formidable southern section of the Sierra Madre mountains — it's heroin traffickers. (NPR – National Public Radio, 14.01.2018)