NAFTA ruined their corn farming, so now they have no choice but to prop up the Mexican narco-state.

I wonder if they could keep a little back for themselves - I hear smoking Opium is fucking amazing.

In Afghanistan farmers are "forced" to grow poppies because they are prohibited from growing other crops that may compete US products. This is a concession to big agricultural interests in the US. To make matters worse the US military has been put into the position of actually defending the poppy production. Maybe this is changing with the recent US raids on some select poppy fields or maybe it was a public relations move - who knows?

In afgan some farmers are forced to have poppy plants, mexico aint much different that afgan, less radical muslims more radical cartel warriors.

https://archive.fo/q6L18 | :

Mexican farmers turn to opium poppies to meet surge in US heroin demand | World news | The Guardian

'The multibillion-dollar Mexican opium trade starts here, with poppy farmers so poor they live in wood-plank, tin-roofed shacks with no indoor plumbing. '

'When the buyer stocks enough opium paste from the farmers, he calls his cartel bosses to have it picked up and taken for processing at a lab. '

'The growers won’t say which gang buys the opium paste they produce on small plots. '

'They only get about 250 pesos (about $17) per dried, pressed kilogramme (2.2lb) of marijuana, compared with 13,000 pesos (nearly $900) per kilo of opium paste. '

'Many farmers say they would like to give up poppy cultivation and plant legitimate crops, in part because of the bloodshed the trade has brought to Guerrero. '

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