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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday the government is studying what to do about growers of opium poppies who have been hit by competition from synthetic opioids, suggesting that ...

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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 ...

TENANTLA, Mexico – Opium poppy growers in southern Mexico who helped fuel the U.S. heroin epidemic say prices for their product have been driven so low — apparently by the use of synthetic opioids ...