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Why Mexican drug-traffickers started smuggling iron ore to China |
IT IS big, bulky, you can't snort it, and it doesn't get you high. Per tonne, it sells for about $125, compared with cocaine, which fetches at least $50m wholesale. By any reckoning, iron ore would seem like a daft thing to peddle if you were in the drugs trade. |
Feb 15, 2021
by
The Economist
World News |