President López Obrador says he wants China to help fight the deadly opioid ravaging the US.
The Mexican president says his country has proof that illegal shipments of the powerful opioid drug fentanyl are arriving from China.
"We already have proof," he said, adding that he would ask the Chinese government to help stop the shipments.In March President López Obrador said he had written to Chinese President Xi Jinping requesting Chinese help in the anti-narcotics fight, after US politicians had urged him to do so. Mexican Navy Secretary Rafael Ojeda said the container intercepted in Lázaro Cárdenas had packages weighing 34-35kg with traces of fentanyl and methamphetamine hidden in fuel resin. The cargo had left the Chinese city of Qingdao and passed through Busan in South Korea before reaching Mexico.67% of the 107,375 US deaths from drug overdoses or poisonings in 2021 were linked to fentanyl or similar opioids.
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