Mexico’s President Says His Country Doesn’t Produce Fentanyl. His Military Seized 7 Tons in 5 Years – By Luis Chaparro (VICE) / June 28, 2023
Mexico is the biggest source of illicit fentanyl killing Americans, according to the DEA.
Fentanyl isn’t produced in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently said. But this week, the head of the nation’s National Guard announced that more than seven tons of the deadly synthetic opioid, which each year kills tens of thousands of Americans in drug overdoses, was seized in the last five years.
“Fentanyl is not produced in Mexico. It is imported from Asia and it arrives in Mexico, United States and Canada,” López Obrador said during a recent morning conference.
But David Córdova Campos of the National Guard told the media on June 27 that the country’s military has busted 1,740 illegal laboratories since 2018.
“This year alone the seizures of fentanyl in the country accounted for 1,725 kilograms, totaling 7,565 kilograms over the past five years,” Córdova Campos said.
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