Puerto Vallarta News

Puerto Vallarta News

As opium poppies bloom, Mexico seeks to halt heroin trade

In the mountains of Mexico’s tropical sierra, an ever-growing expanse of pink poppy flowers has pushed prices so low for opium paste, the gummy raw ingredient of heroin, that farmer Santiago Sanchez worries how he will feed and clothe his family. The area of Mexico that illegally…

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