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    Jobs, roads and schools: Mexico's new president makes a play for El Chapo's homeland

    Farmers in the impoverished region long ignored by the state have for decades scratched out a living from marijuana plantations and opium crops
    by David Agren in Badiraguato Mar 12, 2019 3 minutes
    Andrés Manuel López Obrador greets people during a work tour at Badiraguato in Sinaloa, Mexico, on 15 February 2019. Photograph: Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images

    A campesina calling herself Leocanda recently left her home in the pine-covered sierra of Mexico’s Sinaloa state in search of a favour.

    Alongside her husband, a taciturn man in a cowboy hat, she travelled several hours down a perilous mountain road bearing a message for the powerful man she hoped could help her build a new house.

    Here in the heartland of Mexico’s drug trade, peasant farmers have for generations scratched out a living from marijuana plantations and opium crops.

    And in a region where the state has long been absent, they’ve also turned to local benefactors – – to pay medical bills, pave roads and build schools and churches.

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