{"id":4345,"date":"2012-09-16T23:11:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T06:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=4345"},"modified":"2012-09-16T23:11:11","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T06:11:11","slug":"three-songs-about-heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=4345","title":{"rendered":"Three songs about heroin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8-1GZdSdEgo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Marianne Faithfull &#8211; Before the Poison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lkR_HafkYak\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>The Stranglers &#8211; Golden Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOmZimH00oo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Velvet Underground &#8211; Waiting for the Man<\/strong> (didn&#8217;t for the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ffr0opfm6I4\">obvious one<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot lately about the drug chaos in Mexico. I learned that the heroin trade in Sinaloa, Mexico was started by Chinese immigrants who moved to the region in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The difficult-to-traverse mountains provided a perfect place to start a drug trade that continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Book recommendations<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Murder City<\/em> by Charles Bowden<br \/>\n<em>El Narco: Inside Mexico&#8217;s Criminal Insurgency<\/em> by Ioan Grillo<br \/>\n<em>2666<\/em> by Roberto Bola\u00c3\u00b1o <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianne Faithfull &#8211; Before the Poison The Stranglers &#8211; Golden Brown Velvet Underground &#8211; Waiting for the Man (didn&#8217;t for the obvious one) I&#8217;ve been reading a lot lately about the drug chaos in Mexico. I learned that the heroin trade in Sinaloa, Mexico was started by Chinese immigrants who moved to the region in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/?p=4345\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three songs about heroin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,52,24,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4345\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chimatli.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}