The Central American country is threatened by its American neighbor with exorbitant customs duties if it does not curb the activity of the cartels which are flooding the United States with this synthetic drug.
Mexico announced a new seizure of fentanyl one month before the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump, who threatens to increase customs tariffs if his southern neighbor does not stop illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
More than 400,000 fentanyl pellets and six tons of chemical precursors, used to produce this synthetic drug which causes thousands of overdoses in the United States, were seized and destroyed, announced the Mexican Attorney General's Office. The seizures took place during several operations in the state of Jalisco (west), stronghold of the powerful Nueva Generación cartel.
At the beginning of December, the Mexican federal government announced the record seizure of more than a ton of fentanyl tablets, equivalent to 20,000 doses. Washington recognized this operation.
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Republican President-elect Donald Trump confirmed after his election his desire to“impose 25% tariffs on ALL products entering the United States on Mexico and Canada”from January 20, the day of his inauguration. “This tax will remain in effect until drugs, especially fentanyl, and all illegal immigrants stop this invasion of our country!”he added.
Originally a US government-approved painkiller, fentanyl is a synthetic drug 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than cocaine, according to the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Its illicit use has caused tens of thousands of overdose deaths in recent years, according to the DEA.
Washington claims that the two main Mexican cartels (Jalisco Nueva Generacion and Sinaloa) manufacture and sell fentanyl using inputs from China.
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