Mexico does not produce the artificial opioid, says President Lopez Obrador, claiming Americans, together with single-parent households and fogeys who kick grown kids and aged out of properties, are turning to fentanyl resulting from social decay.
(Reuters)
Mexico’s president has stated that his nation doesn’t produce or devour fentanyl, and that US ought to use household values to battle the habit.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador depicted the artificial opioid epidemic largely as a US drawback as he mentioned fentanyl and arms trafficking in a gathering on Thursday with US Homeland Security Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.
“Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl,” Lopez Obrador stated. “Why don’t they [the United States] take care of their problem of social decay?”
The Mexican president went on to recite a listing of the explanation why he stated Americans had been turning to fentanyl, together with single-parent households, and fogeys who kick grown kids out of their homes or ship aged relations to old-age properties “and visit them once a year.”
Lopez Obrador additionally stated on Twitter the 2 sides talked about US President Joe Biden’s “decision to respect [Mexico’s] sovereignty.”
Some Republican lawmakers have referred to as on the US navy to intervene and assault drug labs in Mexico after two Americans had been killed final week in Mexico’s northern state of Tamaulipas.
Fentanyl has been blamed for about 70,000 opioid deaths per 12 months within the United States.
Muy buena reunión con Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, asesora de Seguridad Nacional de la Casa Blanca.
Hablamos de fentanilo, del tráfico de armas y de la decisión del presidente Joe Biden de respetar nuestra soberanía. pic.twitter.com/Gccf7d1cwk
— Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) March 9, 2023
‘The president is mendacity’
The Mexican president’s assertion contrasted sharply with US Ambassador Ken Salazar’s assertion on Twitter on Thursday {that a} assembly between Sherwood-Randall and Mexico’s legal professional common was meant “to enhance security cooperation and fight against the scourge of fentanyl to better protect our two nations.”
In February, the Mexican military introduced it has seized greater than a half million fentanyl drugs in what it referred to as the biggest artificial drug lab discovered to this point.
The military stated the out of doors lab was found in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state.
In the identical metropolis in 2021, the military raided a lab that it stated in all probability made about 70 million of the blue fentanyl drugs each month for the Sinaloa cartel.
“The president is lying,” stated Mexican safety analyst David Saucedo. “The Mexican cartels, above all the CJNG [Jalisco New Generation Cartel] and the Sinaloa Cartel have learned to manufacture it.”
“They themselves buy the precursor chemicals, set up laboratories to produce fentanyl and distribute it in cities in the United States and sell it,” Saucedo stated.
“Little by little they have begun to build a monopoly on fentanyl, because the Mexican cartels are present along the whole chain of production and sales.”
While it’s true that fentanyl consumption seems to stay low in Mexico and largely confined to northern border areas, which may be as a result of the Mexican authorities is so unhealthy at detecting it.
A 2019 research within the border metropolis of Tijuana confirmed that 93 p.c of samples of methamphetamines and heroin there contained some fentanyl.
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Republicans are ‘inhuman and interventionist’
On Wednesday, US Senator Lindsey Graham held a news convention, saying he needed “to unleash the fury and might of the US against these cartels.”
“The second step that we will be engaging in is give the military the authority to go after these organisations wherever they exist,” Graham stated.
“Not to invade Mexico. Not to shoot Mexican airplanes down. But to destroy drug labs that are poisoning Americans.”
Lopez Obrador stated Mexico wouldn’t settle for such threats, calling them “an insult to Mexico and a lack of respect for our independence and sovereignty.”
Lopez threatened to begin a marketing campaign within the United States, asking Mexicans and Hispanics who reside there to not vote for Republicans.
“We are going to issue a call not to vote for that party, because they are inhuman and interventionist,” Lopez Obrador stated.
In the advertisements launched in November, the Mexican authorities used movies of homeless individuals and open-air drug customers in Philadelphia’s embattled Kensington neighbourhood to attempt to scare younger individuals away from medication.
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