{"id":34,"count":12,"description":"<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3ba0d8e7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con\" data-id=\"3ba0d8e7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{\">\r\n<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c60b3a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3c60b3a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\n<img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-27505\" src=\"http:\/\/noria-research.com\/mxac2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/210308-OPIUM-CHAP4-3-500x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" \/>\r\n\r\nThis project has been produced by Noria Research, in alliance with M\u00e9xico Unido contra la Delincuencia (MUCD), the Center for US.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego (USMEX), and Revista Espejo.\r\n\r\nAlthough Mexico is considered to be the world\u2019s third producer of opium and heroin, and poppy economy is crucial to some of the country\u2019s most marginalized rural regions, there is no initiative dedicated to produce empirical knowledge on the issue.To us, opium poppy is an open door to emblematic territories of the Mexican \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d.\r\n\r\nIn Mexico, opium functions as a \u201cpolitical opiate\u201d: one that allows marginalized regions to economically survive, while the State limits its social, educational, and development functions to a minimum.\u00a0With the Mexico Opium Project, Noria Research sheds light on territories that evolve in a paradoxical situation: simultaneous isolation and integration. In fact, regions of opium poppy production are badly connected to the rest of the country, mainly because of the terrible condition of the roads and transportation infrastructures in general. Yet, this isolation does not prevent these rural areas from being some of the most important regions of both drug trafficking, and the War on Drugs, at the national and international level.\r\n\r\nHence, the paradox appears blatantly. These are margin territories that are deeply integrated within an illegal market that generates spectacular gains and connects the streets of New York, Los Angeles or Chicago with the mountains of Guerrero and Sinaloa.\u00a0Our work, grounded in a local scale of analysis, precisely aims at building bridges between micro level dynamics and regional, national, and international evolutions of the drug market.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/noria-research.com\/mxac2\/executive-summary-10-key-facts-10-ideas-10-conclusions\/\">Executive Summary \u2013 10 Key Facts, 10 Ideas &amp; 10 Conclusions<\/a>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #028487\">Our Objectives<\/span><\/h2>\r\nIn order to produce new insight, we gathered women and men from academic research, policy experts, journalists and photo-reporters.\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ec99e46 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ec99e46\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\nWe built a multi-media, trans-disciplinary initiative that renews the focus on the Mexican War on Drugs and aims at:\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-2f2dbae7 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2f2dbae7\" data-element_type=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-wider\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6234436c\" data-id=\"6234436c\" data-element_type=\"column\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b590c71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2b590c71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2b590c71 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"2b590c71\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><strong>1- Producing field-based evidence <\/strong>first-hand information, and unprecedented quantitative data;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-d5248e0\" data-id=\"d5248e0\" data-element_type=\"column\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d5edab1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"d5edab1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><strong>2- Questioning the myths and dominant narratives <\/strong>that tend to <em>tell\u00a0<\/em>rather than analyze the political weight of opium production in Mexico;<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><strong>3- Debunking what the War on Drugs<\/strong> truly represents in some of its most emblematic territories in Mexico;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5e15f59b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5e15f59b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><strong>4- Understanding what opium production tells us<\/strong> about the country\u2019s economic development, the behavior of the State with regards to some of its most forgotten citizens, and the criminalized stigma that has been put on entire regions and populations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #028487\">How we worked<\/span><\/h2>\r\nWe conducted 15 months of cumulated fieldwork in Guerrero, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Durango, and gathered unprecedented quantitative data to produce novel insights regarding opium poppy cultivation and economy.\r\n\r\nThis allows us to answer a series of crucial questions: Who are the poppy growers in Mexico? How do they live in an illicit economy? How are illicit markets regulated? How does the State behave in such territories? What is the structural weight of opium and heroin economy in Mexico? How is it articulated with licit industries and infrastructures?\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #028487\">Organization<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Opium Project will be released in two Dossiers.<\/h4>\r\n<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-200ca04c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"200ca04c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6e5f5a31\" data-id=\"6e5f5a31\" data-element_type=\"column\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f730569 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f730569\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n\r\nIn both cases, Noria and its partners will release policy reports, photo-reports, videos, articles, maps and data that will shed a new light on the Mexican war on drugs.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section><section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-289fb040 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"289fb040\" data-element_type=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-a23f765\" data-id=\"a23f765\" data-element_type=\"column\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3a975cbc 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class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><strong>Dossier n\u00b01\r\n<\/strong>On March 9th, 2021 the Dossier n\u00b01 focuses on the political, economic and social dynamics of opium and heroin production in Mexico<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-52af7939\" data-id=\"52af7939\" data-element_type=\"column\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4ac806df elementor-position-top elementor-vertical-align-top elementor-widget elementor-widget-image-box\" data-id=\"4ac806df\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image-box.default\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-image-box-wrapper\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-image-box-content\">\r\n<p class=\"elementor-image-box-title\"><strong>Dossier n\u00b02<\/strong>\r\nOn April 14th, 2021 the Dossier n\u00b02 will focus on the dynamics of violence, security and militarization related to opium and heroin production in Mexico.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #028487\">The Work of Our Allies<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">M\u00e9xico Unido Contra la Delincuencia (MUCD)<\/h3>\r\nMUCD has built a micro-website called \u2018Open Data on Anti-Drugs Campaigns\u2019, a virtual space that offers an unprecedented open-access to anti-drugs actions in Mexico, from 1990 to 2020.<strong>\r\n<\/strong>Through this micro-website, MUCD offers the possibility to use, and download a database, as well as more than 900 maps and graphs that allow for a dynamic reading and visualization of anti-drugs campaigns.\r\n\r\n<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mucd.org.mx\/datos-abiertos-sobre-acciones-antidrogas\/\"><span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Discover MUCD's Database and Micro Website<\/span><\/span><\/a>\r\n<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Revista Espejo (Sinaloa)<\/h3>\r\nThe teams at\u00a0Revista Espejo\u00a0have worked on documenting and reporting on the social, human, political and economic dynamics of opium production in Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua \u2013 the famous \u2018Golden Triangle\u2019.\r\n\r\nYou will find long-reads, interviews, local reporting and an exceptional graphic design work that enables to better understand the complexity of one of the most emblematic regions of drug-trafficking in Mexico.\r\n\r\n<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/revistaespejo.com\/especiales\/proyecto-amapola-las-deudas-del-opio\/\"><span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Discover Revista Espejo's work<\/span><\/span><\/a>\r\n<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Pie de P\u00e1gina + Amapola Periodismo (Guerrero)<\/h3>\r\nPie de P\u00e1gina\u00a0is one of the most respected independent media and collective of journalists that gather a network of national and international reporters specializing in social dynamics and human rights.\r\n\r\nThrough their collective of journalists, PdP has actively collaborated with the independent media Amapola Periodismo based in Guerrero, in order to document the opium poppy economy in this region, Mexico\u2019s top producer of opium and heroin.\r\n\r\n<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/piedepagina.mx\/proyecto-amapola\/\"><span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Discover Pie de P\u00e1gina &amp; Amapola Periodismo's work<\/span><\/span><\/a>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h2><span style=\"color: #028487\">Project Team<\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><strong>Project Coordination:<\/strong> Romain Le Cour Grandmaison<\/p>\r\n<strong>Researchers:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Irene Alvarez (Noria Research)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Cecilia Farfan-Mendez (Noria Research)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Paul Frissard Martfnez (MUCD)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Frida Ibarra Olguin (MUCD)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Romain Le Cour Grandmaison (Noria Research)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Nathaniel Morris (Noria Research)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Tania Ramirez (MUCD)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Marcos Vizcarra (Revista Espejo)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Photographers:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">C\u00e9sar Rodriguez<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Fernando Brito<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Lenin Mosso<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Maps and Data Visualization:\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Xavier Houdoy (Noria Research)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Nicolas Ressler (Noria Research)<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Paul Frissard Martfnez (MUCD)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Translations:\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Paul <span class=\"s1\">C. <\/span>Kersey<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ana <\/span>In\u00e9s Fernandez<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Communications Strategy:<\/strong> Vania Pigeonutt\r\n\r\n<strong>MUCD Team:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Tania Ramirez<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Paul <span class=\"s1\">Frissard <\/span>Martrnez<\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p1\">Frida Ibarra <span class=\"s1\">Olguin<\/span><\/li>\r\n \t<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Paul <\/span>Petit <span class=\"s3\">&amp; <\/span>Antonio <span class=\"s2\">Neves<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Revista ESPEJO Team:<\/strong> <span class=\"s1\">C\u00e9sar <\/span>Hernandez<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","link":"https:\/\/noria-research.com\/mxac\/project\/opium-project\/","name":"The Mexico Opium Project\u200b","slug":"opium-project","taxonomy":"project","parent":0,"meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Archives des The Mexico Opium Project\u200b - Mexico &amp; Central America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/noria-research.com\/mxac\/project\/opium-project\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Archives des The Mexico Opium 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Although Mexico is considered to be the world\u2019s third producer of opium and heroin, and poppy economy is crucial to some of the country\u2019s most marginalized rural regions, there is no initiative dedicated to produce empirical knowledge on the issue.To us, opium poppy is an open door to emblematic territories of the Mexican \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d. In Mexico, opium functions as a \u201cpolitical opiate\u201d: one that allows marginalized regions to economically survive, while the State limits its social, educational, and development functions to a minimum.\u00a0With the Mexico Opium Project, Noria Research sheds light on territories that evolve in a paradoxical situation: simultaneous isolation and integration. In fact, regions of opium poppy production are badly connected to the rest of the country, mainly because of the terrible condition of the roads and transportation infrastructures in general. Yet, this isolation does not prevent these rural areas from being some of the most important regions of both drug trafficking, and the War on Drugs, at the national and international level. Hence, the paradox appears blatantly. These are margin territories that are deeply integrated within an illegal market that generates spectacular gains and connects the streets of New York, Los Angeles or Chicago with the mountains of Guerrero and Sinaloa.\u00a0Our work, grounded in a local scale of analysis, precisely aims at building bridges between micro level dynamics and regional, national, and international evolutions of the drug market. Executive Summary \u2013 10 Key Facts, 10 Ideas &amp; 10 Conclusions Our Objectives In order to produce new insight, we gathered women and men from academic research, policy experts, journalists and photo-reporters.  We built a multi-media, trans-disciplinary initiative that renews the focus on the Mexican War on Drugs and aims at:      1- Producing field-based evidence first-hand information, and unprecedented quantitative data;   2- Questioning the myths and dominant narratives that tend to tell\u00a0rather than analyze the political weight of opium production in Mexico; 3- Debunking what the War on Drugs truly represents in some of its most emblematic territories in Mexico;  4- Understanding what opium production tells us about the country\u2019s economic development, the behavior of the State with regards to some of its most forgotten citizens, and the criminalized stigma that has been put on entire regions and populations. How we worked We conducted 15 months of cumulated fieldwork in Guerrero, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Durango, and gathered unprecedented quantitative data to produce novel insights regarding opium poppy cultivation and economy. This allows us to answer a series of crucial questions: Who are the poppy growers in Mexico? How do they live in an illicit economy? How are illicit markets regulated? How does the State behave in such territories? What is the structural weight of opium and heroin economy in Mexico? How is it articulated with licit industries and infrastructures? Organization The Opium Project will be released in two Dossiers.    In both cases, Noria and its partners will release policy reports, photo-reports, videos, articles, maps and data that will shed a new light on the Mexican war on drugs.           Dossier n\u00b01 On March 9th, 2021 the Dossier n\u00b01 focuses on the political, economic and social dynamics of opium and heroin production in Mexico       Dossier n\u00b02 On April 14th, 2021 the Dossier n\u00b02 will focus on the dynamics of violence, security and militarization related to opium and heroin production in Mexico.        The Work of Our Allies M\u00e9xico Unido Contra la Delincuencia (MUCD) MUCD has built a micro-website called \u2018Open Data on Anti-Drugs Campaigns\u2019, a virtual space that offers an unprecedented open-access to anti-drugs actions in Mexico, from 1990 to 2020. Through this micro-website, MUCD offers the possibility to use, and download a database, as well as more than 900 maps and graphs that allow for a dynamic reading and visualization of anti-drugs campaigns. Discover MUCD&#8217;s Database and Micro Website Revista Espejo (Sinaloa) The teams at\u00a0Revista Espejo\u00a0have worked on documenting and reporting on the social, human, political and economic dynamics of opium production in Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua \u2013 the famous \u2018Golden Triangle\u2019. You will find long-reads, interviews, local reporting and an exceptional graphic design work that enables to better understand the complexity of one of the most emblematic regions of drug-trafficking in Mexico. Discover Revista Espejo&#8217;s work Pie de P\u00e1gina + Amapola Periodismo (Guerrero) Pie de P\u00e1gina\u00a0is one of the most respected independent media and collective of journalists that gather a network of national and international reporters specializing in social dynamics and human rights. Through their collective of journalists, PdP has actively collaborated with the independent media Amapola Periodismo based in Guerrero, in order to document the opium poppy economy in this region, Mexico\u2019s top producer of opium and heroin. Discover Pie de P\u00e1gina &amp; Amapola Periodismo&#8217;s work Project Team Project Coordination: Romain Le Cour Grandmaison Researchers: Irene Alvarez (Noria Research) Cecilia Farfan-Mendez (Noria Research) Paul Frissard Martfnez (MUCD) Frida Ibarra Olguin (MUCD) Romain Le Cour Grandmaison (Noria Research) Nathaniel Morris (Noria Research) Tania Ramirez (MUCD) Marcos Vizcarra (Revista Espejo) Photographers: C\u00e9sar Rodriguez Fernando Brito Lenin Mosso Maps and Data Visualization:\u00a0 Xavier Houdoy (Noria Research) Nicolas Ressler (Noria Research) Paul Frissard Martfnez (MUCD) Translations:\u00a0 Paul C. 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Although Mexico is considered to be the world\u2019s third producer of opium and heroin, and poppy economy is crucial to some of the country\u2019s most marginalized rural regions, there is no initiative dedicated to produce empirical knowledge on the issue.To us, opium poppy is an open door to emblematic territories of the Mexican \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d. In Mexico, opium functions as a \u201cpolitical opiate\u201d: one that allows marginalized regions to economically survive, while the State limits its social, educational, and development functions to a minimum.\u00a0With the Mexico Opium Project, Noria Research sheds light on territories that evolve in a paradoxical situation: simultaneous isolation and integration. In fact, regions of opium poppy production are badly connected to the rest of the country, mainly because of the terrible condition of the roads and transportation infrastructures in general. Yet, this isolation does not prevent these rural areas from being some of the most important regions of both drug trafficking, and the War on Drugs, at the national and international level. Hence, the paradox appears blatantly. These are margin territories that are deeply integrated within an illegal market that generates spectacular gains and connects the streets of New York, Los Angeles or Chicago with the mountains of Guerrero and Sinaloa.\u00a0Our work, grounded in a local scale of analysis, precisely aims at building bridges between micro level dynamics and regional, national, and international evolutions of the drug market. Executive Summary \u2013 10 Key Facts, 10 Ideas &amp; 10 Conclusions Our Objectives In order to produce new insight, we gathered women and men from academic research, policy experts, journalists and photo-reporters.  We built a multi-media, trans-disciplinary initiative that renews the focus on the Mexican War on Drugs and aims at:      1- Producing field-based evidence first-hand information, and unprecedented quantitative data;   2- Questioning the myths and dominant narratives that tend to tell\u00a0rather than analyze the political weight of opium production in Mexico; 3- Debunking what the War on Drugs truly represents in some of its most emblematic territories in Mexico;  4- Understanding what opium production tells us about the country\u2019s economic development, the behavior of the State with regards to some of its most forgotten citizens, and the criminalized stigma that has been put on entire regions and populations. How we worked We conducted 15 months of cumulated fieldwork in Guerrero, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Durango, and gathered unprecedented quantitative data to produce novel insights regarding opium poppy cultivation and economy. This allows us to answer a series of crucial questions: Who are the poppy growers in Mexico? How do they live in an illicit economy? How are illicit markets regulated? How does the State behave in such territories? What is the structural weight of opium and heroin economy in Mexico? How is it articulated with licit industries and infrastructures? Organization The Opium Project will be released in two Dossiers.    In both cases, Noria and its partners will release policy reports, photo-reports, videos, articles, maps and data that will shed a new light on the Mexican war on drugs.           Dossier n\u00b01 On March 9th, 2021 the Dossier n\u00b01 focuses on the political, economic and social dynamics of opium and heroin production in Mexico       Dossier n\u00b02 On April 14th, 2021 the Dossier n\u00b02 will focus on the dynamics of violence, security and militarization related to opium and heroin production in Mexico.        The Work of Our Allies M\u00e9xico Unido Contra la Delincuencia (MUCD) MUCD has built a micro-website called \u2018Open Data on Anti-Drugs Campaigns\u2019, a virtual space that offers an unprecedented open-access to anti-drugs actions in Mexico, from 1990 to 2020. Through this micro-website, MUCD offers the possibility to use, and download a database, as well as more than 900 maps and graphs that allow for a dynamic reading and visualization of anti-drugs campaigns. Discover MUCD&#8217;s Database and Micro Website Revista Espejo (Sinaloa) The teams at\u00a0Revista Espejo\u00a0have worked on documenting and reporting on the social, human, political and economic dynamics of opium production in Sinaloa, Durango and Chihuahua \u2013 the famous \u2018Golden Triangle\u2019. You will find long-reads, interviews, local reporting and an exceptional graphic design work that enables to better understand the complexity of one of the most emblematic regions of drug-trafficking in Mexico. Discover Revista Espejo&#8217;s work Pie de P\u00e1gina + Amapola Periodismo (Guerrero) Pie de P\u00e1gina\u00a0is one of the most respected independent media and collective of journalists that gather a network of national and international reporters specializing in social dynamics and human rights. Through their collective of journalists, PdP has actively collaborated with the independent media Amapola Periodismo based in Guerrero, in order to document the opium poppy economy in this region, Mexico\u2019s top producer of opium and heroin. 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