The largely fruitless search for opium poppies in Guatemala over several days in March laid bare a seismic shift in Latin America's drug trade.
In the United States, the world's largest market for illicit drugs, fentanyl has largely displaced heroin because of how cheaply and easily Mexican cartels can produce the synthetic opioid in makeshift labs using chemicals from China.
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