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Risky life of Mexican poppy farmers

Name: Risky life of Mexican poppy farmers
Uploaded: 2015-05-22T11:35:41.528Z
Duration: 3 min 12 s
Channel: Financial Times
Description: Mexican poppy plantations — the roots of a drug war

The FT’s Mexico correspondent Jude Webber meets farmers in the mountains of Guerrero and hears why some are still farming the poppies that go to make heroin, and why others have given up.

May 22, 2015

Filmed and produced by Deborah Bonello and Jose Maria Alvarez. Edited by Deborah Bonello.