The Oaxacan Example

Continuing on with our promised examination of DDT's usefulness in the War on Malaria, we're gonna turn our gaze southward this morning. As carefully detailed here, Mexico was a longtime heavy user of DDT, sloshing out 70,000 tons of the controversial chemical between 1959 and 1999. Then the nation resolved to phase out DDT entirely, and instead employ other means of combating malaria. Chief among these new tactics was a focus on eliminating mosquito breeding grounds—something that was much m...