The government of Mexico, under mounting pressure President Trump to limit drug trafficking, said on Friday that he had seized 18 kilos of fentanyl hidden on a bus.
Mr. Trump cited the illegal flows of opioid and fatal migrants as the main reasons for a Planned price of 25% On Mexican products which, according to the White House, would take effect on Saturday.
“The president will implement 25% of prices on Mexico tomorrow, 25% prices in Canada and a tariff of 10% on China, for the illegal fentanyl that they have obtained and authorized to distribute in our country, which has Killed, “Karoline Leavitt said tens of millions of Americans,” said on Friday during a briefing on Friday.
The Latin American nation has announced a series of major fentanyl attacks in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to highlight increased efforts to combat the smuggling of medicines.
The latest transport was discovered in the spare wheel compartment of a passenger bus during a search on a highway in the northwest border state Sonorasaid the authorities.
Two kilos of heroin were found with the fentanyl pills, according to a joint declaration by the Ministries of Defense, the Navy and Security as well as the Prosecutor’s Office and the National Guard.
Two men were arrested and the vehicle was seized, they said.
The declaration also pointed out the discovery of four tonnes of methamphetamine during a raid on a house in Playas in Rosarito, south of California, without saying when the crises occurred.
In December, the Mexican government announced what it called “The greatest seizure of fentanyl in history”, “ totaling over a million pills.
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The synthetic opioid, which is 50 times more powerful than heroin, has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths by overdose in the United States.
Mexico is one of the main traffic paths for medication and chemicals to make it, most of which come from China, according to American authorities.
THE American administration of the application of drugs said the Mexican cartels are “at the heart” of a synthetic crisis in narcotics in the United States.
The powerful Sinaloa cartel “dominates the fentanyl market thanks to its manipulation of the global supply chain and the proliferation of clandestine fentanyl laboratories in Mexico,” he said in his national assessment of the national threat of drugs.
But the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said The authorities found no evidence This fentanyl is produced in the country.
“Until now, we have not found that precursors arrive – because most precursors come from Asia – and the whole process is manufactured here in Mexico,” she said earlier This month.
In an interview in 2024 with “60 minutes”, the former president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López echoes the position of Sheinbaum.
“Fentanyl is produced in the United States, Canada and Mexico. And chemical precursors come from Asia, ”said Manuel López.
Foreign companies are not responsible for the payment of prices. Instead, US companies directly pay prices on their goods imported to the federal government, according to At La Fact Foundation, a taxed tax group.