How much does it cost to make a kilo of fentanyl? In shoes?

By Ivabelle Arroyo

Searching for bones, the mothers and families of Mexico's disappeared discovered something worse: "El kinder". It is not a school, but a recruitment and extermination center in Jalisco, where cartels train and discard young people as if they were disposable material. A forced labor camp with crematoria for those who do not adapt, lose fights, get sick or simply cease to be useful.

There are 400 pairs of shoes left there, the mute remains of bodies that are no longer there. It is not just another grave, it is the brutal image of what drug trafficking really means. Not just drugs, not just money. They are young people entering a machinery of death: they enter, they die, they enter, they die, they are burned, they leave their shoes.

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