The Opium Wars (1839-42 and 1856-60) forced China into its “Century of Humiliation”: British gunboats secured drug trade routes and Hong Kong was ceded.
Two centuries later, the irony echoes in Argentina.
In Mendoza, 1 out of 5 newborns in public hospitals tests positive for marijuana, alcohol, or other substances. And what happens in Mendoza happens across the country.
No more foreign fleets unloading opium — today the poison grows in our own neighborhoods, reaching the crib and staining the future.
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