Mexico City: Mexico's President AMLO said in a statement on Thursday that the US is responsible for the fentanyl crisis, which kills thousands of people in the US every year.
AMLO further stated, "Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not consume fentanyl," waging war with drug cartels, advising Americans to "take care of their problem of social decay". protested.
Even though his government has confiscated thousands of drugs, the Mexican president claimed that the addiction epidemic north of the border was driven by single-parent families, parents evicting older children, and older children hiding their elderly relatives. It was more related to social ills like nursing homes "and visit them once a year."
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AMLO made his statement following a call from US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) to "unleash America's fury and strength against these cartels".
The notoriously aggressive Republican argued that the Pentagon should "dismantle the drug labs that are poisoning Americans" while insisting that he did not want to "invade Mexico".
Graham's comments were criticized by the Mexican president as "an insult to Mexico and a lack of respect for our freedom and sovereignty", and he called on all living in the US to vote against the "inhumane and interventionist" Republican Party. Hispanic and Mexican people were threatened with solicitation. , ,
The proposal by the senator would be "disastrous" for cooperation between the two countries, agreed Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard.
The diplomat said on Twitter on Thursday that "work is being done against fentanyl now more than ever" and cited the recent seizure of six tons of fentanyl that otherwise would have entered US bodies.
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They know that the fentanyl epidemic originated not in Mexico, but in the United States," he wrote.
Drug cartels that previously traded heroin and cocaine have turned to the much more profitable synthetic fentanyl and methamphetamine, buying precursor chemicals from other countries and producing the drugs in giant superlabs.
The government recently launched a campaign to warn citizens to stay away from fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin, despite the fact that it is rarely used in Mexico. The campaign uses images from drug-infested areas of American cities.
More than 379 million doses of fentanyl were seized by the US Drug Enforcement Administration last year, which is more than enough to kill every person out there.
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Since the 1990s, when millions of Americans were exposed to addiction through the popular pain reliever OxyContin, which Purdue Pharmaceuticals marketed as non-habit-forming, those dying from opioid overdoses The number of Americans continues to grow.