The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denounced this Wednesday that the chemical precursors of fentanyl arrive in Mexico from Chinaalthough Beijing It assures you that you have your ports under control.
They maintain that they have control of their ports. However, not fentanyl, But chemical precursors have been seized in Mexico from China and we have that informationand they are helping and will continue to support,” said the president in his daily press conference.
We even consider that there are false invoices that are delivered for chemical precursors, supposedly from China and supposedly substances for medical purposes and this is not the case. Action is already being taken,” he added.
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His statements come after his meeting last Thursday with the president of ChinaXi Jinping, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) in the American city of San Francisco, where they agreed to cooperate to combat fentanyl trafficking.
Despite Washington’s complaints, Both Mexico and China deny that illegal fentanyl is produced in their countries and then ends up in the United States.
Even so, the Mexican president reported an agreement with his Chinese counterpart in this regard.
“That we made an effort to communicate more and confront this entire gang that is dedicated to the trade of these drugs, to the importation of these chemicals and we are already taking action, and he agreed that we work together, we are doing it now,” López Obrador now commented.
The president had already sent two letters to Xi this year to ask for his cooperation against fentanyl trafficking, an issue on which the United States has increased pressure ahead of its 2024 presidential elections.
Even the president of Mexico claimed last May to have evidence of illegal trafficking of fentanyl from China after seizing a container in the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, in the Pacific.
López Obrador stated that, during his meeting with Xi, he saw that in China “they are aware, he is very aware, that we have to work together to prevent the chemicals from arriving, the drug that is converted into fentanyl and which is very harmful.”
He agreed, even when I raised the issue with him, he mentioned what China had suffered during the opium crisis, and he agreed that this is above, because it is a humanitarian issue, the political and ideological differences that we may fear. “, held.
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