The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has assured this Friday that the high percentage of homicides in the state of Guanajuato (center) is directly related to the consumption of fentanyl.
In Jalisco, we all know that a cartel operates, but there is not the consumption (of fentanyl) that there is in Guanajuato, and for the same reason, there is not the number of homicides that there is in Guanajuato,» said Lopez Obrador, who also included Sinaloa in this simile.
Thus, the Mexican president has stressed that the dispute between groups dedicated to organized crime for the distribution and sale of fentanyl is the cause of up to 80 percent of the homicides registered in the state, according to the newspaper ‘El Universal’.
In recent weeks, fentanyl has become a bone of contention between the United States and Mexico, with the two North American nations accusing each other of increasing consumption of the substance, and US politicians have even called for intervention in the neighboring country.
Fentanyl, an opioid that can be 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, has registered an increase in consumption in the United States, where in 2021 alone it was the cause of death of more than 71,000 Americans.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
