Golden Triangle (Mexico)
The mountainous region where Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua converge in the Sierra Madre Occidental. From the 1930s onward, this area became Mexico’s foremost opium and marijuana growing zone. By the mid-1970s, approximately 20,000 farmers here produced an estimated 74% of illegal drugs consumed in the United States, and Mexico supplied 90% of US heroin through the “heroin highway” connecting poppy fields to Chicago.
Referenced by
- sourcesOperation Condor: Mexico's Antidrug Campaign Enters a New Era
- sourcesOperation Condor, The War on Drugs, and Counterinsurgency in the Golden Triangle (1977-1983)
- sourcesThe Last Harvest? From the US Fentanyl Boom to the Mexican Opium Crisis
- notesHow Counter-Narcotics Created the Cartels: Northern Mexico 1969–1989
- eventsOperation Condor (Mexico)