“There is a lot of disintegration of families, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces,” says Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador, blaming damaged household values for opioid deaths in America.
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Mexico’s president has stated that US households have been responsible for the fentanyl overdose disaster as a result of they do not hug their youngsters sufficient.
The remark by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday caps per week of provocative statements from him concerning the disaster brought on by the fentanyl, an artificial opioid that has been blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per 12 months within the United States.
Lopez Obrador stated household values have damaged down within the United States, as a result of dad and mom do not let their youngsters reside at house lengthy sufficient.
He has additionally denied that Mexico produces fentanyl.
On Friday, the Mexican president instructed a morning news briefing that the issue was brought on by “a lack of hugs, of embraces.”
“There is a lot of disintegration of families, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces,” Lapez Obrador stated of the US disaster.
“That is why they [US officials] should be dedicating funds to address the causes.”
Lopez Obrador has repeatedly stated that Mexico’s close-knit household values are what have saved it from the wave of fentanyl overdoses.
Experts say that Mexican cartels are making a lot cash now from the US market that they see no have to promote fentanyl of their house market.
Cartels ceaselessly promote methamphetamines in Mexico, the place the drug is extra widespread as a result of it purportedly helps individuals work tougher.
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Failed anti-drug insurance policies
Lopez Obrador has been stung by calls within the United States to designate Mexican drug gangs as terrorist organisations.
Some Republicans have stated they favour utilizing the US navy to crack down on the Mexican cartels.
On Wednesday, Lopez Obrador referred to as anti-drug insurance policies within the US a failure and proposed a ban in each international locations on utilizing fentanyl in drugs — regardless that little of the drug crosses from hospitals into the unlawful market.
US authorities estimate that almost all unlawful fentanyl is produced in clandestine Mexican labs utilizing Chinese precursor chemical compounds.
Relatively little of the unlawful market comes from diverting medicinal fentanyl used as anesthesia in surgical procedures and different procedures.
There have been solely scattered and remoted reviews of glass flasks of medicinal fentanyl making it to the unlawful market.
Most unlawful fentanyl is pressed by cartels into counterfeit capsules made to appear like different medicines like Xanax, oxycodone or Percocet.
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