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Mexico asks China for help on fentanyl, slams US critics
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Mexico asks China for help on fentanyl, slams US critics April 4, 2023 - Reuters
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's president said on Tuesday he had written to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, urging him to help control shipments of fentanyl as he fended off criticism in the U.S. that Mexico is not doing enough to stop trafficking of the synthetic opioid.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador read out the letter to Xi dated March 22 in which he defended efforts to curb supply of the deadly drug, while rounding on U.S. critics, some of whom want Washington to intervene militarily in Mexico.
"We come to you, President Xi Jinping, not to ask for your support in the face of these rude threats, but to request that for humanitarian reasons, you help us control shipments of fentanyl that can be sent from China to our country," he said.
Speaking at a news conference, Lopez Obrador said the letter took shape after a recent visit by U.S. lawmakers, in which they proposed he speak to China to address the fentanyl threat.
The Chinese embassy in Mexico did not have any immediate comment on the letter.
Fentanyl has been blamed for fueling a surge in overdose deaths in the U.S., and Republican lawmakers especially have accused Mexico of failing to stop drug cartels producing and moving the powerful painkiller north.
In his letter, Lopez Obrador asked Xi if he could provide Mexico with information on when and where fentanyl was being sent, as well as how much and by whom.
Lopez Obrador says fentanyl laboratories have sprung up in Mexico, and he told Xi that law enforcement had last year destroyed nearly 1,400 clandestine labs mixing the drug with other substances, and seized seven tonnes of it.
A Reuters report found that many of the labs were inactive.
But Lopez Obrador says Mexico does not produce fentanyl and that cartels buy it direct from Asia. He said in the letter that only 30% of the drug consumed in the U.S. enters via Mexico.
U.S. officials contest the view that fentanyl is not produced in Mexico, arguing the opioid is mass-produced in the country using chemicals sourced largely from China.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has been at the forefront of U.S. pressure on Mexico, and on Monday he said he would put forward legislation on fentanyl that would include designating Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said countering the fentanyl threat was a top priority, and he pushed back against Graham's criticism, saying the vast majority of people arrested in the U.S. for trafficking fentanyl are Americans.
"There's no other country in the world that's doing as much against fentanyl trafficking to the United States as Mexico," Ebrard told the news conference.
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Re: Mexico asks China for help on fentanyl, slams US critics [Re: veggie]
#28263040 - 04/05/23 05:26 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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The cartels are pissed that we are taking their weed money away. China would like see USA destabilized. Anybody else wonder if they might be working together?
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Re: Mexico asks China for help on fentanyl, slams US critics [Re: cricket]
#28263278 - 04/05/23 09:17 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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It’s been said if the US takes action against the cartels in a designated terrorist sort of way (because they are exactly that by definition) to remember we’re connected. It’s not like enemies on other continents. The cartels also have said they’ll just poison random shipments coming in. This shit could go pretty dark but what really doesn’t have that potential these days?
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Re: Mexico asks China for help on fentanyl, slams US critics [Re: cricket]
#28263287 - 04/05/23 09:20 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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cricket said: The cartels are pissed that we are taking their weed money away. China would like see USA destabilized. Anybody else wonder if they might be working together?
They most definitely are. China flies in the scientists that teach the cartels what to do with the precursors. This is a direct attack.
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Re: Mexico asks China for help on fentanyl, slams US critics [Re: Amanita86] 1
#28263585 - 04/05/23 12:19 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Agreed. It is an attack on the US. Every few days news outlets report record heroin and cocaine seizures around the world. In Europe, Australia, Africa, the Atlantc, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, etc.
Fentanyl is not mentioned in these news articles. The fentanyl epidemic and fentanyl deaths are uniquely a USA issue, for the most part. The US is being targeted.
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Re: Mexico asks China for help on fentanyl, slams US critics [Re: veggie]
#28264576 - 04/06/23 03:45 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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China responds ...
China says no illegal fentanyl trafficking between it and Mexico April 6, 2023 - Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - There is no such thing as illegal trafficking of fentanyl between China and Mexico, China's foreign ministry said on Thursday, responding to a letter from the Mexican president asking Beijing to help limit illicit flows of the deadly drug.
China has not been notified by Mexico about any seizure of fentanyl from China, ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a regular briefing.
"U.S. needs to face up to its own problems and take more substantive measures to strengthen regulation within its borders and reduce demand," Mao said, referring to drug abuse as a problem "made in the U.S.".
Mexico's president said on Tuesday he had written to Chinese president Xi Jinping, urging him to help control shipments of fentanyl as he fended off criticism in the U.S. that Mexico is not doing enough to stop trafficking of the synthetic opioid.
Fentanyl, widely used in hospitals during anaesthesia and for pain relief, has become a major black market narcotic in the United States. Mexican drug cartels have increasingly taken part in the illegal business.
Overdoses of the opioid killed more than 100,000 people in the 2022 U.S. fiscal year, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador defended in the March 22 letter efforts to curb supply of the drug, while rounding on U.S. critics, some of whom want Washington to intervene militarily in Mexico.
The letter and China's response did not mention supplies of the precursor chemicals used to make the powerful sedative.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency says both finished fentanyl and precursors are transported from China to Mexico, the United State and Canada, often by international mail.
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Re: Mexico asks China for help on fentanyl, slams US critics [Re: veggie] 1
#28264730 - 04/06/23 07:34 AM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Clearly they would never lie about such things. Honor and whatnot being what it is..
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Re: Mexico asks China for help on fentanyl, slams US critics [Re: veggie]
#28266165 - 04/06/23 10:39 PM (1 year, 1 month ago) |
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Can't we all just get along
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