Lack of hugs induced US fentanyl disaster, Mexico’s chief says

Mexico’s president has stated that U.S. households are in charge for the fentanyl overdose disaster as a result of they do not hug their children sufficient

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president stated Friday that U.S. households had been in charge for the fentanyl overdose disaster as a result of they don’t hug their children sufficient.

The remark by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador caps every week of provocative statements from him concerning the disaster attributable to the fentanyl, an artificial opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels that has been blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per 12 months in america.

López Obrador stated household values have damaged down in america, as a result of mother and father don’t let their youngsters reside at dwelling lengthy sufficient. He has additionally denied that Mexico produces fentanyl.

On Friday, the Mexican president instructed a morning information briefing that the issue was attributable to “a scarcity of hugs, of embraces.”

“There’s a whole lot of disintegration of households, there may be a whole lot of individualism, there’s a lack of affection, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces,” López Obrador stated of the U.S. disaster. “That’s the reason they (U.S. officers) ought to be dedicating funds to deal with the causes.”

López Obrador has repeatedly stated that Mexico’s close-knit household values are what have saved it from the wave of fentanyl overdoses. Consultants say that Mexican cartels are making a lot cash now from the U.S. market that they see no must promote fentanyl of their dwelling market.

Cartels often promote methamphetamines in Mexico, the place the drug is extra well-liked as a result of it purportedly helps folks work tougher.

López Obrador has been stung by calls in america to designate Mexican drug gangs as terrorist organizations. Some Republicans have stated they favor utilizing the U.S. navy to crack down on the Mexican cartels.

On Wednesday, López Obrador known as anti-drug insurance policies within the U.S. a failure Wednesday and proposed a ban in each nations on utilizing fentanyl in drugs — although little of the drug crosses from hospitals into the unlawful market.

U.S. authorities estimate that the majority unlawful fentanyl is produced in clandestine Mexican labs utilizing Chinese language precursor chemical compounds. Comparatively little of the unlawful market comes from diverting medicinal fentanyl used as anesthesia in surgical procedures and different procedures.

There have been solely scattered and remoted stories of glass flasks of medicinal fentanyl making it to the unlawful market. Most unlawful fentanyl is pressed by Mexican cartels into counterfeit tablets made to seem like different medicines like Xanax, oxycodone or Percocet.