From Mexico cartel safe house to US streets: BBC tracks deadly fentanyl …
1 day ago · The fentanyl dealer from Los Angeles stands to the side watching carefully as a Mexican drugs cartel operative prepares his latest shipment. The synthetic opioid drug is …
How Much Fentanyl Is Coming From Canada, Mexico and China?
Mar 6, 2025 · President Donald Trump has justified his on again, off again tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China as a way to hold the countries accountable for fentanyl in the U.S. that he …
How Does Fentanyl Reach the United States?
Mar 4, 2025 · Mexico is a major recipient of precursor chemicals used as ingredients for fentanyl via illicit networks set up by cartels. The cartels, after manufacturing the drug, then often hire …
How Fentanyl Producers in Mexico Are Adapting to Challenges
Jan 22, 2025 · Fentanyl producers in Mexico are on a steep learning curve, partly driven by increasingly strict regulations and enforcement over the supply chain of precursor chemicals. …
Mexico announces another big fentanyl seizure before Trump's …
Jan 31, 2025 · Mexico's government, under mounting pressure from President Trump to curb drug trafficking, announced Friday that it had seized 18 kilos of fentanyl hidden in a bus.
Fentanyl use spreads deeper into Mexico, on heels of US epidemic
Feb 20, 2024 · Mexico's mental health and addiction commission (CONASAMA) has classified fentanyl as an "emerging drug" because of an uptick in users seeking treatment, even though …
Exclusive: Trump’s foreign aid freeze stops anti-fentanyl work in Mexico
Feb 13, 2025 · Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico if the country does not stop the flow of fentanyl into the U.S. and control illegal immigration.
How Fentanyl Is Synthesized in Mexico - InSight Crime
May 9, 2023 · The consensus of US officials and US counternarcotics agents that Mexico-based criminal groups are accumulating fentanyl precursors and pre-precursors and synthesizing the …
The shadowy ‘brokers’ helping Mexico’s cartels smuggle fentanyl ...
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.
Mexico, a leading producer of illicit fentanyl, can't get enough for ...
Apr 13, 2024 · MEXICO CITY (AP) — A report released by the Mexican government Friday says the country is facing a dire shortage of fentanyl for medical use, even as Mexican cartels pump …