This Thursday, the United States affirmed that Mexico must strengthen its customs and “enforce the law” to stop fentanyl traffickingafter Joe Biden’s government agreed with China to control the production of chemical precursors used to produce the drug.

“Cooperation must go through strengthening customs infrastructure stop the illegal transit of all these counterfeit products, invest in the resources of the Prosecutor General’s Office and ensure compliance with the law within the country,” he said in an interview with the publication EFE Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America Brian Nichols.

In addition, he added that his southern neighbor should find out which “companies are involved in the supply” of these chemicals and how their “illegal financial networks” are expanding.

According to Washington, Mexican cartels They use chemical precursors from China. produce this opioid, fifty times more powerful than heroin, and subsequently sell it illegally in the United States.

In this sense, US President Joe Biden and his counterpart Andrés Manuel López Obrador will hold a bilateral meeting this Friday within the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum, at which the Mexican President has already announced that the fentanyl problem will be solved.

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In addition, on the sidelines of APEC last Wednesday, the long-awaited meeting between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping took place, ending with an agreement for the Asian power. control the movement of chemicals beyond its borders which produces fentanyl and, according to the White House, agreed to create a “working group” on drugs.

This Friday, already within the framework of the APEC Leaders’ Summit, taking place in San Francisco (California) and ending on Friday, the another bilateral meeting between Xi Jinping himself and Lopez Obrador.

APEC is a forum founded in 1989 that promotes commercial integration of 21 economies on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. They make up approximately 60% of global GDP. and 40% of the world’s population. (EFE)