Category: poppy

April 22, 2022 Off

Amazing Photos of the Taliban’s Poppy Harvest

HELMAND, Afghanistan – Two days before the Taliban announced their country-wide ban on poppy cultivation, Jumah Gul was out in…

October 19, 2020 Off

By Julian Morgans

It was May 2003 and farmers Bruce and Kathryn Goss had just won a new Jaguar X-Type. For about a…

February 18, 2019 Off

By Deborah Bonello

CARTEL CHRONICLES is an ongoing series of dispatches from the front lines of the drug war in Latin America. The…