AMLO claims to have evidence of fentanyl trafficking from China

president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obradorthis Friday he assured that he had evidence of illegal fentanyl trade from China, which Beijing denied after a letter sent by the Mexican president asking for help in the fight against the drug.

“We already have evidence. The shipment arrived from a port in China, a container, to the port of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, then all the laboratory analyzes were done and we will respectfully send this information,” said López Obrador in his conference.daily press.

The president will send a new letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping to reiterate his request for support in fighting the illegal fentanyl trade, which causes 100,000 deaths a year in the United States and has triggered Washington’s political pressure on Mexico, according to López Obrador.

The president sent the first letter in April, but then Mao Ning, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, said there was “no illegal trade in fentanyl between China and Mexico.”

Despite this statement, the Mexican Navy found “a few days ago” a shipment weighing more than 20 tons from China containing fentanyl and methamphetamine.

The container, which first left the Chinese port of Qingdao and stopped in Busan, South Korea, brought 600 packages of fuel resin weighing between 34 and 35 kilograms each, which it revealed this Friday Secretary of the Mexican Navy José Rafael Ojeda.

“The product was contaminated with fentanyl and methamphetamine,” Ojeda said.

With this information, López Obrador He will ask Xi Jingping “whether it is possible to prevent these chemicals from leaving their ports, to allow only substances or fentanyl used for medical purposes to sail, which is not the case that has been detected.”

“We will send a letter to the President of China with this information, respectfully, respectfully, reiterating the request that they help us with the information as it would give us more control,” rframed

The petition comes amid growing criticism of Mexico from US politicians, particularly Republican lawmakers, who are calling for a declaration of war on Mexican cartels and their designation as terrorists.

The Mexican president admitted that he wrote the request to Xi Jinping after a visit by a congressman from the United States, whose Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) claims that fentanyl is produced in Mexico with substances from China.

“They came from both parties, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, we met and they asked me to intervene with the Government of China, to control the arrival of fentanyl from Asia, assuming that the fentanyl was sent from Asia, especially from China,” He he said.