The Fentanyl War Breaks Out in the Mountains of Northern Guerrero

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They put themselves on the road and waited. They knew they were coming. But they could spend hours, given the conditions of the road, an endless dirt track, already dry, after so many months of rain. At about 16.00, a trail of dust began to grow on the horizon. Javier Hernández and about twenty neighbors of Guajes de Ayala, in the mountains of northern Mexico’s state of Guerrero, prepared, hiding in some holes that had dug along the road. The ot…