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Mexican Ambassador to the United States Esteban Moctezuma said on Friday that the vast majority of fentanyl seized at the border is smuggled in by US citizens and
Mexican Ambassador to the United States Esteban Moctezuma said on Friday that the vast majority of fentanyl seized at the border is smuggled in by US citizens and stressed that the “responsibility” for fighting it lies with both countries.
“We see that in 85% of seizures At the border that the CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) has established, those who are transporting drugs are not migrants, they are American citizens,” he said at a press conference in Washington, along with U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar.
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Montezuma said both countries are responsible for fighting him and announced the work of the Mexican government to stop the arrival into its territory chemicals from Asia that are used to manufacture drugs.
So is the ambassador He cited the fact that the Navy is in charge of Mexican ports as an example. so “there is more control”, as well as a letter from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping asking him for closer cooperation.
“The results are not far off. seizures of methamphetamine-related substances have increased significantly. as well as from the fentanyl itself, which came from outside,” he said.
Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid manufactured by Mexican cartels using chemicals from China and shipped to the United States, where More than 70 thousand people died last year from overdoses this substance.
Democrat Joe Biden’s administration has assured that Mexico must do more to stop the drug, but Lopez Obrador doubts that fentanyl is produced in Mexicodespite the fact that federal authorities are dismantling hundreds of clandestine laboratories of this substance.
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At a press conference, US Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar explained that fentanyl “is a very difficult problem” for his country, therefore The United States has formed a global coalition against this opioidin which Mexico joins but China refuses to participate.
“We have worked extensively against fentanyl and we know that US and Mexico should include Chinese involvement because the predecessors come from there, and we have a hard job with this,” he said.
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The diplomat also stated that Biden’s government responded to Mexico’s demand stop the supply of American weapons to this Latin American country.
“In terms of arms trafficking, we are at a very historic stage. What we do was never done“, he commented, as the US passed a law making gun trafficking a “serious crime.”
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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