Well of course it is - any persuasive piece is only going to link to sources that push the same position it does. That's why I was asking for a personal experie

Well of course it is - any persuasive piece is only going to link to sources that push the same position it does. That's why I was asking for a personal experience of the place. My expectation is that there is a drug problem in the area, the 'article' is exaggerating it by an order of magnitude, and that that the real goal is political and not humanitarian.