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Early Days of Mexican Smuggling! It wasn't drugs it was wax!

Yes it was wax, the Mexicans had a huge smuggling operation from the Chihuahuan desert into the area in Texas known as Big Bend National Park, located in the most southwestern tip o' Texas. The area was complete with hard-assed Apache, Comanche and Jumanos and greedy gringos ducking bullets from Pancho Villa, lucking for the buck to be made off of the Candelilla plant to supply the American candl More..e trade.

The trade goes back to the late 1800's and ended just after World War Two.

"For the Mexicans it's smuggling, but for us it's importing." Wax has always flowed across the Rio Grande either because buyers on this side would pay more than the Banco or because cash was more quickly accessible from Texas buyers. It is illegal under Mexican law to smuggle wax out of Mexico, but not illegal under United States statutes to bring it into this country for marketing if it is declared with customs. Heavily laden burros have brought wax into Texas at various places, including Stillwell's Crossing, Reagan Canyon, La Linda, Boquillas, San Vicente, Solis, Santa Elena, Lajitas, El Mulato, Presidio, and Candelária. It is estimated that as many as 1700 tons of wax have been smuggled across the Texas border in some years.

This echoes hauntingly close to the prohibition of the hemp plant after World War Two. Enjoy a good read!

I first went to Big Bend during the last appearance of Haley's comet during the mid eighties and there a ruins and remnants left all over the park from this trade. Less..

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