"Parro" for Borderland Beat
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| A soldier burns coca plants found in the Tierra Caliente region of Guerrero. |
The military announced Monday that it had discovered and destroyed four hectares of coca leaf fields located near a cocaine manufacturing lab in Guerrero, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) north of Acapulco.
According to military officials, it marked the first time that operations for growing and manufacturing cocaine have been found in Guerrero.
“We’ve never found the cultivation of these crops in the state,” said Lt. Col. Enrique Benítez Campoy. “For that reason, it’s relevant. It’s the first that’s ever been found.”
Authorities said the plants had been harvested and processed at least four months ago. The lab contained abandoned items for manufacturing cocaine, leading them to believe that the crops had been processed there.
The military said that the carefully organized plantings were hidden in the hills of the rural community of El Porvenir y El Limón.
The site also had many hundreds of meters of irrigation pipes that led to a nearby stream. Federal authorities said they believed an organized crime group in the Tierra Caliente region was behind the sites, but did not specify which.
Benítez said that each hectare of the coca leaves would have yielded five to seven kilograms of cocaine. He estimated the total value of the final product at approximately US $12,500.
Another cocaine plantation was discovered in 2014 in Chiapas.
Man there ain’t shit to be made in cultivation
ReplyDeleteI have always wonder why only grow in South America.
ReplyDeleteIt's native to South America, ideal climate
DeleteBecause it’s the only place with the right combination of climate and elevation. It’s also the only place with enough land available to grow it at the volume needed to make it in large quantities. It’s not like marijuana or heroin. It takes 450-600 kilos of fresh coca leaves to produce 1 kilo of cocaine. I’m guessing whatever product they were able to produce in these attempts at growing it and producing it in Mexico is of very poor quality. It’s simply not the right environment to produce quality coca.
Delete“ total value of the final product at approximately US $12,500”. Jaja. Maybe porque the coca de Mexico is not good.
ReplyDelete$12,500 is the aproximación of precio de kilo when delivered and sold here from Jalisco to Sinaloa, and more if delivered to Veracruz.
I'd like to try that Mexican grown
ReplyDeleteMichoacán been growing coke for the longest
ReplyDelete@7:35. This is obviously a long term attempt to get it right. 100% of the blow sold throughout the world comes from Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Columbia. There has been no Mexican paste that generates potent or quality product - so your assertion is bunk. This is a well funded test to see if they can grow a quality; hence marketable product outside the Andes - and so far the answer has been no.
Delete12:03 michoacan has a similar climate to Colombia in tierra caliente region. It's tropical and land is fertile.
DeleteIt's not like michoacan capos ate going to brag on social media of the Coke fields if there is ANY. Or if THEY are going to call a special person to do a quality check. So for now it's just a rumor but it's a believable ONE IMO
I volunteer to check any drugs for free! But i suspect the idea is to pretend all future cocaine busts want to claim it is local and personal use to avoid being declared an international drug trafficking conspiracy, much like all the licensing of grifa on the US, it just hides a lot of foreign produce where the money is in paying cheap for the supply of very best in the whole world from Mexico.
DeleteIt's a start.. There might be bigger grows coming in the future.
ReplyDelete8:37 There have been more hectares and bushes but the problem es la calidad of los leaves. The production of quality HCL has been tried for centuries outside of the diverse regions, climates, soil types, that the coca plant has grown and evolved to thrive for who knows how long. There are active grows in Mexico and now after what has been tried the plant is not rugged to survive and the harvested leaves are thin and not very green so it would require more leaves, more bushes and more expensive refinement to still make a product that will never have the quality or number of alkaloids to make a good product - other than maybe the piedra smoked in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteGMO will find a way, Monsanto does not give up easily.
DeleteI saw coca growing all over costa rica- wonder why they dont harvest it there
ReplyDeleteColombia has evolved their coca plants to yield twice as much cocaine as before, for years, think of it, the steroid enhanced bulls, wrestlers, athletes and vedettes are not naturals either, they are at the level of rubber dolls.
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