Mexican President
«Lack of hugs is the reason behind the fentanyl crisis in the US»
Andrés Manuel López Obrador blames the parents of children living in the United States for the country’s rampant fentanyl crisis. He dismissed allegations that a lot of fentanyl was also getting into the USA from Mexico.
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sees a curious reason for the opioid crisis currently raging in the United States.
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So there is “too little love and hugs” from the parents for their children. Obrador also sees one of the reasons why people later slip into addiction is that many parents did not let their children live with them for long.
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In his country, on the other hand, there is no fentanyl crisis. According to experts, this is mainly due to the fact that drug dealers prefer to sell the products in the USA because they make much more profit there.
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This map from the DEA aims to show how fentanyl gets into the US. While a large part is currently still being produced in China, according to experts, an increasing proportion of the drug is being manufactured directly in Mexico and then smuggled into the USA.
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The Mexican President sees a lack of family values as the reason for the opioid crisis that is raging in the USA.
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López sees the fact that parents did not let their children live with them long enough as one of the main reasons.
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He has now asked the United States to “take money in hand” to combat the causes.
Mexikos Präsident Andrés Manuel López Obrador hat Familien in den USA to blame for the country’s fentanyl crisis given. They are to blame for the overdose crisis because they don’t hug their children often enough, he explained. The synthetic Opioid is used by Mexican drug cartels smuggled into the US. It is blamed for around 70,000 overdose deaths annually there.
Obrador sees “lack of love and hugs”
The head of state found that family values in the United States had collapsed. This is because parents did not let their children live with them long enough. He denied the manufacture of fentanyl in Mexico. “There’s a lot of family breakdown, there’s a lot of individualism, there’s a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs,” he said of the narcotics problem. He called on the United States to spend money to combat the causes.
The future will show whether Andrés Manuel López Obrador really did himself a favor with this statement. Because the US government has repeatedly demonstrated in the past that it does not shy away from allowing law enforcement agencies such as the FBI or the DEA to operate abroad if many drugs reach the USA from these countries.
This is what happened around the 1980s when the United States Breaking up large Colombian drug cartels to minimize the availability of cocaine in the United States. However, the resulting gaps were quickly closed once more smaller and newly formed cartels filled.
Effect of fentanyl is often underestimated
The strong opioid fentanyl, which is actually used in medicine as a painkiller, is cheap to get and is therefore consumed by many heroin addicts as a substitute. Because of its concentration However, fentanyl is an overdose even at much smaller doses cause.
On the far left a lethal dose of heroin, in the center a lethal dose of fentanyl. The synthetic opioid carfentanil is regarding 100 times more potent than fentanyl.
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Almost all fentanyl that ends up in the US is made by Chinese drug cartels, according to the Wilson Center research institute. While Mexico has long been used as a staging post to get the drug to the US, where it can be sold at a huge profit, more and more fentanyl is also being produced directly in Mexico, according to the Wilson Center.
USA continues “War on Drugs”.
Mexican smugglers, who often have years of experience smuggling other drugs or other goods, have played a key role for years. If the US were now to target Mexico as the main perpetrator of the fentanyl crisis, this might also mean direct intervention on Mexican territory – despite the “War on Drugs” like the US Measures to curb drug smuggling and use called, was declared a failure by various experts years ago.
López Obrador has repeatedly stated that close family ties in his country prevented a fentanyl crisis from breaking out there as well. Experts say the Mexican cartels are making so much money with the drug on the US market that they see no need to sell it domestically. Domestically, the cartels are increasingly selling methamphetamines, which have a reputation for helping people work harder.
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