Mexico’s president blames U.S. fentanyl crisis on “lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs”
Mexico’s president said Friday that American families are to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don’t hug their children enough.
Remarks by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador The Week of Incendiary Statements That’s about the crisis caused by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels that has been blamed for nearly 70,000 deaths. Overdose deaths every year in the United States.
López Obrador said that family values in the United States have broken down, as parents do not allow their children to stay at home for long. He has it too. Denied that Mexico produces fentanyl..
On Friday, Mexico’s president told a morning news briefing that the problem was caused by “a lack of hugs, a lack of hugs.”
“A lot of families are broken, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, brotherhood, hugs and hugs,” López Obrador said of the US crisis. “That’s why they (US officials) should dedicate funds to address the causes.”
López Obrador has repeatedly said that Mexico’s close-knit family values have protected it from a wave of fentanyl overdoses. Experts say Mexican cartels are now making so much money from the U.S. market that they don’t need to sell fentanyl in their home market.
Cartels often sell methamphetamines in Mexico, where the drug is popular because it allegedly helps people work harder.
López Obrador has been spurred by calls for the United States to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations. Some Republicans have said they favor using the U.S. military to crack down on Mexican cartels.
On Wednesday, López Obrador denounced anti-drug policies in the United States as a failure and proposed banning the use of fentanyl in drugs in both countries — even though very little of the drug makes its way from hospitals to the illegal market.
U.S. officials estimate that most illegal fentanyl is manufactured in clandestine Mexican laboratories using Chinese precursor chemicals. A relatively small portion of the illicit market comes from the diversion of fentanyl, a drug used as anesthesia in surgeries and other procedures.
There have been only scattered and isolated reports of glass flasks of the medicinal fentanyl entering the illicit market. Most illegal fentanyl is squeezed by Mexican cartels into counterfeit pills that look like other drugs like Xanax, oxycodone or Percocet.
Mexico’s defense department said Tuesday that troops found more than that 1.83 million fentanyl tablets In a stash house in the border city of Tijuana.
The raid took place a few weeks after the occupation by Mexican troops. About 630,000 fentanyl tablets In Culiacan, the capital of the northern state of Sinaloa. Sinaloa is home to the drug cartel of the same name.
Mexican cartels have used the border town to smuggle fentanyl into counterfeit pills. Then they smuggle these pills into America.
Head of the Drug Enforcement Administration told CBS News That the Jalisco and Sinaloa cartels are the two Mexican cartels behind the influx of fentanyl into the US that is killing tens of thousands of Americans.
Developed as a pain management treatment for cancer patients, fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine. DEA. The powerful drug was behind nearly 66 percent of the 107,622 drug overdose deaths between December 2020 and December 2021. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And since 2018, seizures of fentanyl-laced pills by law enforcement Increased About 50 times.