Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared to depict the synthetic opioid epidemic largely as a U.S. problem, and said the United States should use family values to fight drug addiction.
Mexico's President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, gesticulates while responding to media questions during the briefing conference at National Palace. Mexico’s president says his country does not produce or consume fentanyl, despite enormous evidence to the contrary. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appeared to depict the synthetic opioid epidemic largely as a U.S. problem, and said the United States should use family values to fight drug addiction.
He went on to recite a list of reasons why Americans might be turning to fentanyl, including single-parent families, parents who kick grown children out of their houses and people who put elderly relatives in old-age homes "and visit them once a year." In the same city in 2021, the army raided a lab that it said probably made about 70 million of the blue fentanyl pills every month for the Sinaloa cartel.
Saucedo said fentanyl exports to the U.S. are so lucrative for Mexican cartels that they previously had not seen a need to develop a domestic market for the drug.Authorities say one person was arrested after large amounts of fentanyl and methamphetamine were seized during separate incidents in Arizona.
López Obrador said Mexico would not accept such threats, calling them "an insult to Mexico and a lack of respect for our independence and sovereignty." Hope said the Mexican president may not realize how much the issue of declaring Mexican cartels terrorist organizations could become a conservative rallying cry in the 2024 U.S. elections, just as former President Donald Trump's call for a border wall was in 2016.
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