Mexico’s leader said lack of hugs caused the US fentanyl crisis
Mexico’s president said on Friday that American families are to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don’t hug their children enough.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador tops a week of provocative statements from him about the crisis caused by fentanyl – a synthetic opioid. Trafficked by Mexican cartels which has been blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths annually in the United States
López Obrador said family values have collapsed in the United States because parents don’t allow their children to live at home long enough.
He also denied it Mexico produces fentanyl.
On Friday, the Mexican president said at a morning news briefing that the problem was caused by a “lack of hugs.”
“There’s a lot of breaking up of families, there’s a lot of individualism, there’s a lack of love and brotherhood and hugs and hugs,” López Obrador said of the American crisis.
That is why (US officials) should allocate money to treat the causes.”
Lopez Obrador He said over and over that it was the tight-knit Mexican family values that saved her from a wave of fentanyl overdoses.
Experts say that Mexican cartels are now making so much money from the US market that they see no need to sell fentanyl in their home market.
Cartels frequently sell methamphetamine in Mexico, where the drug is most popular because it allegedly helps people work harder.
López Obrador has been subject to calls in the United States to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
Some Republicans said they would prefer to use the US military to suppress the Mexican gangs.
Wednesday, Lopez Obrador On Wednesday, drug control policies in the United States were called a failure and he proposed bans in both countries on the medical use of fentanyl – even though few of the drugs make it from hospitals to the illegal market.
US authorities estimate that most illegal fentanyl is produced in secret Mexican laboratories using Chinese precursor chemicals.
Relatively little of the illegal market comes from diversion of the medical fentanyl used for anesthesia in surgeries and other procedures.
There have been only isolated and isolated reports of glass vials of medical fentanyl reaching the illegal market.
Mexican gangs squeeze most of the illegal fentanyl into counterfeit tablets made to look like other drugs like Xanax, Oxycodone, or Percocet.
