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Opium poppies are pictured in the fields of Pueblo Viejo in the Sierra Madre del Sur in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico, August 25, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

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The pitfalls of poppy licensing in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, August 31, 2020

Soldiers cut opium poppies as they destroy a field of illegal plantation in the Sierra Madre del Sur, in the southern state of Guerrero, Mexico, August 25, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso SEARCH "JASSO OPIUM" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

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Poppy, eradication, and alternative livelihoods in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

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Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members wait to be escorted upon their arrival at the maximum-security jail in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Crime & Criminal Justice

Bargaining with the devil to avoid hell? Negotiations with criminal groups in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vanda Felbab-Brown

July 2020

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Fending off fentanyl and hunting down heroin: Controlling opioid supply from Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Packets of fentanyl mostly in powder form and methamphetamine, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection say they seized from a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico, is on display during a news conference at the Port of Nogales, Arizona, U.S., January 31, 2019. Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

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Fentanyl and geopolitics: Controlling opioid supply from China

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

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Assessing and improving the government’s response to the veterans’ opioid crisis

John Hudak

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Lisa Collinsworth (R) holds her baby son Luke during a visit with him at Lily's Place, a treatment center for opioid-dependent newborns in Huntington, West Virginia, October 19, 2015. Picture taken October 19, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

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All in the family: A comprehensive approach to maternal and child health in the opioid crisis

N. Jia Ahmad, Joshua M. Sharfstein, and Paul H. Wise

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Packages already inspected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers sit in orange bins at the International Mail Facility at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. November 29, 2017. Picture taken November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Lott

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Enforcement strategies for fentanyl and other synthetic opioids

Bryce Pardo and Peter Reuter

Monday, June 22, 2020

Blog Posts

A police officer walks amid ammunition near the scene of a shooting in Mexico City, Mexico, June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Order from Chaos

Mexico’s criminal brazenness matters

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, August 3, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico's president, left, listens during a signing ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Lopez Obrador has carefully built a rapport with Trump, even as the president lambasted Mexico for its drug cartels and crime rates, for migration flows into the U.S. and for allegedly taking advantage of America on trade. Photographer: Al Drago/Pool/Sipa USANo Use UK. No Use Germany.

Order from Chaos

The damage Trump’s wall causes in Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, July 20, 2020

A soldier stands near police officers guarding a crime scene following an assassination attempt of Mexico City's chief of police Omar Garcia Harfuch, at the upscale neighborhood of Lomas de Chapultepec, in Mexico City, Mexico June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Luis Cortes

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Mexico’s spiraling criminal market

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, July 6, 2020

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Sap oozes from poppies after they are scratched, a process to get opium from poppies, in a village outside Balkh province, about 500 km (310 miles) north of Kabul May 6, 2006. The illegal narcotics trade dominates Afghanistan's economy, accounting for 60 percent of its gross domestic product and 87 percent of the world's supply. Heroin and morphine are derived from opium, which comes from poppies. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

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Heroin’s journey during COVID

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