One researcher says small-scale disruptions are common in the illegal drug trade, but the chaos seen in recent months is nearly unprecedented.
Farmers harvest opium sap from a poppy field in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on May 10. The country is the world's biggest heroin supplier, but a U.N. report found a shortage of field workers there because of the coronavirus.Noorullah Shirzada/AFP via Getty Images
"The harvest involves more than a hundred thousand people," Me said, noting Afghanistan sealed its border with Pakistan in March because of the virus."Much of this labor force comes from other countries and it's kind of a labor migration in a very short period of time." Cartels in Mexico are also struggling with transportation of drug profits."There's a perceived increase in police presence associated with the stay-at-home orders," Dhillon told NPR."You couple that with the border shutdowns, it makes it more difficult to move drugs north and money south."
Amid today's pandemic, drug traffickers are already adapting. The U.N. found more local women working in Afghanistan's poppy fields, for example, replacing workers who couldn't travel. Cartels appear to be shifting from air and land transport to shipments by sea to bring product from Mexico into the U.S.
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