Posted on 04/07/2024 5:24:05 PM PDT by RandFan
Fentanyl is killing more Americans than ever. It's blamed for more than 70 thousand fatal overdoses each year.
US authorities say the synthetic opioid is mostly produced in Mexico and trafficked across the border. But addiction and deaths are also on the rise in Mexican towns and cities.
When smuggling into the US all but stopped during the pandemic, the cartels unleashed fentanyl on their own population. Now they're trying to clean up the mess.
Our Latin America Correspondent Guillermo Galdos travelled to Tijuana, to see how it's going.
His report shows images of drug use.
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Before Biden met with Xi-China was the foremost manufacturer of illegal fentanyl.
Like magic, US authorities now cite Mexico as the leading manufacturer.
China manufactures the precursor chemicals which are then shipped into Mexico where they become fentanyl.
This is how China keeps “clean hands”.
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interesting and he says a tiny amount is lethal
The cartels have banned it in domestic use because too many dead not good for business.
Still Zombies all over the place. It’s a rancid drug
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