Pubdate: Thu, 26 Sep 2019
Source: USA Today (US)
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Author: Daniel Gonzalez

POPPIES CULTIVATED FOR HEROIN FUEL CRISIS

SAN ANTONIO, Guatemala - Surrounded by green fields of potatoes, oats 
and corn on his small farm, Carlos Lopez recalled the decent money he 
was earning before last year, cultivating a different crop he referred 
to simply as "the plant."

The plants, ones with the bright red flowers, "are worth a lot more than 
these other crops," Lopez said, wearing a blue baseball hat, sitting on 
a plastic chair behind his two-room, mud-splattered house.

"Amapola," said Lopez, speaking the Spanish word for poppy.
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