However, Mexico’s efforts to fight drugs like the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl — which is manufactured by Mexican cartels using chemicals imported from China — have weakened in the last year.
Fun fact
The majority of those imported precursor chemicals are imported into the US and then driven across the border, smuggled into Mexico.
Fun fact
The majority of those imported precursor chemicals are imported into the US and then driven across the border, smuggled into Mexico.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/drugs-fentanyl-shipping/
And almost 90% of that fent is smuggled back into the US by US citizens.