EL DURAZNO, Mexico — Mexico's heroin industry has had a bullish few years, and for traffickers the outlook is as uplifting as the scarlet, orange and yellow poppy flowers from which the narcotic is ...

FILE - In this March 4, 2010 file photo, a soldier stands on a poppy field during eradication supervised by the Mexican Army on the outskirts of Morelia, Mexico. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López ...

MEXICO CITY – Political leaders from Mexico's main heroin-producing state are pushing the federal government to legalize opium production for pharmaceutical use in a move they hope will reduce ...

Landholders are being encouraged to look out for new infestations of mexican poppy following wet conditions in Central Australia. Mexican poppy has infested some river systems in the Northern ...

MEXICO CITY – Mexican navy officials said Tuesday that one marine was killed and two others wounded in an ambush by drug cartel gunmen in the State of Mexico, just west of Mexico City. The ambush, and ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Monday the government is studying what to do about growers of opium poppies who have been hit by competition from synthetic ...