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...have been using Soviet-made AK-47 automatic weapons. brought home by U.S. veterans of Viet Nam and exchanged for drugs. As a result, the drug dealers in Culiacán are helping Condor's work; the death rate last year was running at 2.7 corpses a day. Postsiesta funerals, rolling through the streets of the provincial capital, have become commonplace, although judicious citizens take pains to ignore the processions. Explains a local journalist: "If you don't watch the funerals and don't get involved, this place is as safe as Disneyland." And much more unreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Sierra Madre's Amapola War | 2/21/1977 | See Source »

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