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In Mexico, there’s a black market for doughnuts

Boston Calling

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The border towns of Juarez in Mexico and El Paso in the US are common transit points for guns and drugs. Lately though, one family has begun to traffic in an entirely different sort of commodity. Doughnuts. Kate Linthicum has been reporting on this small but booming black market for the Los Angeles Times. (Image: Sonia Garcia sells Krispy Kreme doughnuts from the trunk of her car Credit: Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

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