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Introduction – Opium Dreams. What is Hidden Behind the Poppy Flower.
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Read MoreChapter 1 – The Reddest Flower in the Field. How Does the Opium Poppy fit in the Mexican Agricultural Scene?
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Read MoreChapter 2 – Drug-trafficking and rural capitalism in Guerrero.
Introduction In 1976, then presidential candidate, José López Portillo, made a campaign swing through southern Mexico. In Acapulco Bay, he gave a speech in which
Read MoreChapter 3 – Between Manna and Uncertainty. Poppy as a Political Opiate in Guerrero.
Introduction “In the eighties, even up to the crisis of ’94, a kilo of gum could get you a new pick-up. Or you could build
Read MoreChapter 4 – “Sinaloa is not Guerrero”. Illicit Production, Licit Agribusiness.
Introduction The normally sweltering city of Culiacán, Sinaloa was in the middle of an unusual cold snap in February 2020 when I asked my interlocutors—mainly
Read MoreChapter 5 – The Pendulum of scarcity. Opium, Farmers and Internal Migration in the Golden Triangle.
Introduction Life is different here. The wind does not pass by unnoticed in these valleys for it makes a terrifying echo as it strikes the
Read MoreChapter 7 – Ethnography of Humiliation in the Sierra of Guerrero
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Read MoreChapter 8 – Negotiating with narcos, Sweet-Talking the State.
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Read MoreChapter 9 – Narrating the history of poppies in Mexico. Infinite possibilities.
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