'Serving All Your Heroin Needs' | Apr 17, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/serving-all-your-heroin-needs.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/0

'Serving All Your Heroin Needs' | Apr 17, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/serving-all-your-heroin-needs.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/opinion/sunday/serving-all... > Most of our heroin now comes not from Asia, but from Latin America, particularly Mexico, where poppies grow well in the mountains along the Pacific Coast. Mexican traffickers have focused on a rudimentary, less-processed form of heroin that can be smoked or injected. It is called black tar, which accurately describes its appearance. Cheaper to produce and ship than the stuff of decades past from Asia, heroin has fallen in price, and so more people have become addicted. 'How El Chapo Was Finally Captured, Again' | Jan 16, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/world/americas/mexico-el-chapo-sinaloa-sean-penn.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/world/americas/mexico-el-c... > [El Chapo] was, after all, a creator of the border tunnel, underground passages equipped with lighting, ventilation and mechanical carts to smuggle drugs into the United States without having to bother with the headache of evading customs agents. In total, Mr. Guzmán’s organization is estimated to have burrowed more than 90 such passages between Mexico and the United States. 'El Chapo Faces Array of Drug Charges in United States' | Jan 16, 2016 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/world/americas/extradition-of-el-chapo-to-us-is-neither-certain-nor-simple.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/world/americas/extradition... > Their joint indictment charged Mr. Guzmán and another suspected leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael Zambada García, with distributing more than 500 tons of cocaine in the United States since the late 1980s. It also charged them with distribution of heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana. Prosecutors believe that the cartel may have been the biggest supplier of cocaine to the New York City area for a decade or longer. In their most recent indictment of Mr. Guzmán and Mr. García, prosecutors listed 163 separate counts of distribution of cocaine in the United States, ranging from 234 kilograms to as much as 23,000 kilos.