Posted on 03/09/2023 6:25:51 PM PST by McGruff
Mexico’s president said Thursday that 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.
His statement came during a visit to Mexico by Liz Sherwood-Randall, the White House homeland security adviser, to discuss the fentanyl crisis. It also comes amid calls by some U.S. Republicans to use the U.S. military to attack drug labs in Mexico.
The Mexican government has acknowledged in the past that fentanyl is produced at labs in Mexico using precursor chemicals imported from China. Fentanyl has been blamed for about 70,000 opioid deaths per year in the United States.
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I’m sorry but don’t understand your point.
Yes. Thank you for your thoughtful comment.
I am not sure that “decadence” is the world I would use.
Trump is, himself, as decadent as Marie Antoinette was.
What would the word be? Undeserving, maybe.
As de Tocqueville predicted, we have learned that we can vote ourselves largesse from the public treasury.
We are decreasingly capable ov governing our selves ourselves,
and are less worthy that ever of self-government.
A very apt description.
The US Military should take over the corrupt Mexican Ports where the Fentanyl precursors come in from China. That’s Step 1.
Securing the Border should come AFTER that.
John Mills: Fentanyl Distribution From China to Mexico Across US Border, Unrestricted Warfare
Indeed. Mexico has never been an ally of the US and they hate us. I’m only too proud to say I despise Mexico and Mexicans.
Arrogant beggars and welfare parasites, always with a chip on their shoulders and a damnable attitude of some sort that we owe them something.
“This is the equivalent of the opium wars and we need to get serious.”
If you were serious, you would throw users of fentanyl in jail, not just dealers. The “drug war” that fails to hold people accountable for their own actions is not taking anything seriously.
Coddling addicts has destroyed entire cities.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/gop-bomb-mexico-fentanyl-00091132
Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) introduced a bill seeking authorization for the use of military force to “put us at war with the cartels.” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) said he is open to sending U.S. troops into Mexico to target drug lords even without that nation’s permission. And lawmakers in both chambers have filed legislation to label some cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, a move supported by GOP presidential aspirants.
“We need to start thinking about these groups more like ISIS than we do the mafia,” Waltz, a former Green Beret, said in a short interview.
Nearly 71,000 Americans died in 2021 from synthetic-opioid overdoses — namely fentanyl — far higher than the 58,220 U.S. military personnel killed during the Vietnam War. And the Drug Enforcement Agency assessed in December that “most” of the fentanyl distributed by two cartels “is being mass-produced at secret factories in Mexico with chemicals sourced largely from China.”
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