Jan 22, 2025 · While Mexico’s fentanyl market has not yet fully reached this stage, producers seem to be heading in that direction. The most recent regulatory changes came in August 2024, when China imposed stricter controls on 1-BOC-4-AP and 4-AP, two substances widely used as fentanyl pre-precursors by producers in Sinaloa, according to our interviews and ...

Feb 7, 2024 · Because the opioid is cheap and easy to produce and transport, Mexican drug cartels have begun to cut it into recreational drugs like cocaine. The Mexican border city finds itself in the grip of a...

Feb 20, 2024 · In Mexico's traditional opioid heartlands, fentanyl's rise has been well documented. A 2020 study found 93% of 59 heroin samples collected in Tijuana were laced with the drug.

Dec 29, 2024 · New York Times reporters witnessed the dangerous fentanyl production process inside a secret lab in Culiacán run by Mexico’s most powerful criminal syndicate.

Dec 4, 2024 · Mexican authorities have announced what they say is the largest fentanyl bust in the country’s history, with over a ton of the synthetic opioid seized in two raids in the cartel-ridden northern...

Dec 5, 2024 · Mexican soldiers and marines have seized over a ton of fentanyl pills in two raids in the north, with officials calling it the biggest catch of the synthetic opioid in the country's history.

Sep 22, 2024 · Two powerful Mexican drug cartels have flooded the U.S. with fentanyl, leading to the worst drug crisis in American history. Fentanyl was responsible for more than 70,000 deaths last year.

Dec 18, 2024 · Chemical brokers are the supply chiefs of the fentanyl trade, smuggling key ingredients from China to Mexico. Bribes, trickery and violence help them feed the pipeline.

The United States and Mexico are working together in this fight, promoting historic cooperation on both sides of the border to stop fentanyl trafficking. We recognize the Government of Mexico’s announcement about the seizure of more than 1,700 kilograms of fentanyl in the first half of 2023.

Dec 26, 2024 · The cartel operatives came to the homeless encampment carrying syringes filled with their latest fentanyl formula. The offer was simple, according to two men living at the camp in northwest Mexico ...