Climate Change Is Pushing Indigenous Runners to Smuggle Drugs

The Rarámuri of northern Mexico are known as some of the world’s best ultramarathon runners. Crop failures caused by climate change are increasingly pushing them into the hands of cartels, which employ them to run drugs across hundreds of miles of the US-Mexico borderlands.

Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News

Check out VICE News for more: http://vicenews.com

Follow VICE News here:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews
Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews
More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo

#VICENews #News

source