'In case you thought that Mexico was an ally that the US could rely on to combat the flow of fentanyl into the country, Mexico’s president is now outright lying about the issue,' ZacharyFaria writes.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador laid the blame for the U.S. fentanyl crisis at the feet of Americans. “Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl,” López Obrador said. “Why don’t they take care of their problem of social decay?”It is utterly outrageous to claim that Mexico does not produce fentanyl.
Mexico, meanwhile, has stonewalled U.S. officials when it comes to sharing information about and addressing the fentanyl crisis, taking the same approach as Communist China. In the fiscal year 2022, over 16,000 pounds of fentanyl were seized along the Mexican border with the U.S., with who knows how many more pounds making their way into the country.López Obrador doesn’t want to offend Mexico’s cartels, though, so while those cartels smuggle drugs into the U.S.
The Republican bluster about military action against the cartels is misguided, but it should also be clear that Mexico as a whole is not going to be a real ally to the U.S. in this crisis, as López Obrador has shown. Mexico is our largest trading partner and a regular recipient of U.S. aid. Perhaps those are the first things we should now be re-evaluating.
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