Drug Cartels Are Taking Over the Tortilla Business in Mexico
Samuel ran down the steep dirt track lined with blue and pink houses desperate to escape. The 20-year-old took long strides and ran from one side to the other in a zigzag. He begged for someone to open the door of a house so he could hide, but nobody did. That mid-morning, the poor and violent neighborhood of La Laja in the Mexican resort city of Acapulco seemed suddenly deserted. A few moments before, three gunmen had burst into a tortilla shop called Los Mangos...
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