{"id":3236,"date":"2025-01-31T23:28:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T23:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mexico-announces-another-big-fentanyl-seizure-before-trumps-tariff-deadline\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T23:28:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T23:28:41","slug":"mexico-announces-another-big-fentanyl-seizure-before-trumps-tariff-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mexico-announces-another-big-fentanyl-seizure-before-trumps-tariff-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico announces another big fentanyl seizure before Trump&#8217;s tariff deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Mexico&#8217;s government, under <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-trade\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">mounting pressure<\/a><\/span> from President Trump to curb drug trafficking, announced Friday that it had seized 18 kilos of fentanyl hidden in a bus.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump has cited illegal flows of the deadly opioid and migrants as the main reasons for a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-tariffs-february-1-canada-mexico-china\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">planned 25% tariff<\/a><\/span> on Mexican goods that the White House said would take effect on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president will be implementing tomorrow 25% tariffs on Mexico, 25% tariffs on Canada and a 10% tariff on China, for the illegal fentanyl they have sourced and allowed to distribute into our country, which has killed tens of millions of Americans,&#8221; White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Latin American nation has announced a series of major fentanyl seizures in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to highlight increased efforts to combat drug smuggling.<\/p>\n<p>The latest haul was discovered in the spare wheel compartment of a passenger bus during a search on a highway in the northwestern border state of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/2-u-s-citizens-killed-mexico-armed-attack-sonora-highway\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Sonora<\/a><\/span>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Two kilos of heroin were found along with the fentanyl pills, according to a joint statement from the defense, navy and security ministries as well as the public prosecutor&#8217;s office and the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Two men were arrested and the vehicle was seized, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also reported the discovery of four tons of methamphetamine during a raid on a house in Playas de Rosarito, south of California, without saying when the seizures happened.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the Mexican government announced what it called <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexico-largest-fentanyl-seizure-history\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;the largest seizure of fentanyl in history,&#8221;<\/a><\/span> totaling more than one million pills.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-left embed--size-small\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"Mexican authorities seize fentanyl \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/12\/05\/1fc711b8-bbe0-467e-be91-3aa6b75ffafc\/thumbnail\/620x465g2\/9b0dfdb46f666f6a5109936e235eea41\/2024-12-04t142813z-1652395666-rc2eibaagrke-rtrmadp-3-mexico-drugs.jpg?v=a599723035d2f104d7a2d01edbe96ef8 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/12\/05\/1fc711b8-bbe0-467e-be91-3aa6b75ffafc\/thumbnail\/1240x930g2\/c3a6a4782f193a05039a29b1467495e2\/2024-12-04t142813z-1652395666-rc2eibaagrke-rtrmadp-3-mexico-drugs.jpg?v=a599723035d2f104d7a2d01edbe96ef8 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">The contents of a vehicle are displayed after Mexican authorities conducted a joint operation, seizing fentanyl, at an unknown location, in this social media image released December 4, 2024.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Omar H Garcia Harfuch via Reuters<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The synthetic opioid, which is 50 times more potent than heroin, has been linked to tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Mexico is one of the main trafficking routes for the drug and for the chemicals to manufacture it, most of which come from China, according to U.S. authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-fentanyl-drug-crisis-60-minutes-transcript\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration<\/a><\/span>\u00a0said that Mexican cartels are &#8220;at the heart&#8221; of a synthetic narcotics crisis in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful Sinaloa Cartel &#8220;dominates the fentanyl market through its manipulation of the global supply chain and the proliferation of clandestine fentanyl labs in Mexico,&#8221; it said in its 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment.<\/p>\n<p>But Mexico&#8217;s President Claudia Sheinbaum has said <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fentanyl-production-mexico-president-trump-tariff\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">authorities have found no proof<\/a><\/span> that fentanyl is being produced in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So far, we have not found that precursors arrive &#8212; because most of the precursors come from Asia &#8212; and that the whole process is manufactured here in Mexico,&#8221; she said earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2024 interview with &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; Mexico former president\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-talks-immigration-cartels-fentanyl-crisis-60-minutes-transcript\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez<\/a><\/span>\u00a0echoed Sheinbaum&#8217;s stance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada, and in Mexico. 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