Mexico separates 275,000 pill pills from boxes of sliced cacti that are prone to Arizona
Authorities in northern Mexico found about 70 pounds of fentali hidden inside the box of sliced cacti, the most important Mexican food products known as Nopales.
Mexican law enforcement said they seized about 275,000 deadly drug tablets in the border state of Sonor, on the way to Arizona and arrested a 29-year-old man. The drugs were estimated at about $ 6.5 million. Authorities have also found tablets and powder -shaped drug.
The subtraction took place on a military control point on the Mexican highway that connected the northern state of Sinalo and Sonora, where police searched the trailer carrying the Nopales packages.
It is just the latest in the game of cats and mouse between drug smugglers and power around the world, because traders find people more unusual ways to draw drugs into other countries. Found cocaine and fentanila packets stifled in hair extensions, they are saved Inside the car muffler,, baked in breadand hidden in Avocado and bananas. Some organizations used Submarines for transportation Illegal drugs through international borders.
Apseidure also comes during a tense moment between Mexico and the United States, while Mexico strives to meet the requests of President Donald Trump Stop the flow of the fantanila and migrants north, to which he used to justify 25% of tariffs He settled on Tuesday, although migrations north and fentanil overdose but sharply dipped Before Trump assumed his duty. President Trump set up similar demands of Canada but officials say Very little fantanila flows over that border.
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump said that after negotiating with Mexican and Canadian authorities, he would approve a one -month tariff exceptions Car manufacturers, compensating for the number of economic blowing tariffs would turn out.
