Mexican government, under Mounting pressure From President Trump to the suppression of drug trade, he announced on Friday that he had seized 18 pounds of fentanil hidden on the bus.
Mr. Trump cited illegal flows of deadly opioids and migrants as the main reasons for a planned 25% of tariffs On Mexican goods that the White House said would take effect on Saturday.
“The president will spend 25% of tariffs on Mexico tomorrow, 25% of tariffs in Canada and 10% of tariffs on China, because they got the illegal fentanil and allowed them to distribute to our country, which killed tens of millions of Americans,” secretary for the Karolina White House Leavitt said at the briefing on Friday.
The Latin American nation has announced a number of great seizures of fental in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to highlight increased efforts in the fight against drug smuggling.
The last time was discovered in a passenger bus section for a spare wheels during a highway searches in the northwestern border state Sonorathe authorities said.
Two pounds of heroin were found together with the pills of the fentanis, according to a joint statement of the Ministries of Defense, Navy and Security, as well as the Office of the Public Prosecutor and the National Guard.
Two men were arrested and the vehicle was confiscated, they said.
The statement also reported the discovery of four tons of methamphetamine during a raid on the Playas de Rosarito house, south of California, without appearing when the seizures occurred.
In December, the Mexican government announced that it was called “The biggest seizure of fental in history,” A total of more than one million tablets.
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The synthetic opioid, which is 50 times more powerful than heroin, is associated with tens of thousands of deaths from an overdose in the United States.
Mexico is one of the main drugs for drug trafficking and for chemicals that produce it, most of which come from China, according to US authorities.
AND US Drug Implementation Administration He said Mexican cartels were “in the heart of” synthetic narcotics crisis in the United States.
A strong Sinalo cartel “dominates the fental market with its manipulation of the global supply chain and expanding the concealed Laboratory of Fentanil in Mexico,” according to his national drug threat 2024.
But Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said Authorities have not found proof This fentanil is produced in the country.
“So far, we have not discovered that the precursors are coming – because most of the precursor comes from Asia – and that the whole procedure is here in Mexico,” she said earlier this month.
In an interview 2024. For “60 minutes”, former president in Mexico Andrés Manuel López Sheinbaum’s attitude echoed.
“Fentanil is produced in the United States, in Canada and Mexico. And chemical precursors come from Asia,” said Manuel López.
Foreign companies are not responsible for paying tariffs. Instead, US companies directly pay tariffs to their imported goods to the Federal Government, according to to the Tax Foundation, a tax center aimed at tax.
