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Cooking an environmental catastrophe in Mexico’s illegal drug labs
América Armenta | Jesús Bustamante / Quinto Elemento Lab|
Thousands of clandestine labs to manufacture synthetic drugs are dumping tons of toxic chemicals into Mexico’s most fragile ecosystems. Who is in charge of protecting the environment against the growing number of these laboratories? Quinto Elemento Lab investigates