Mexican Officials Make Record Fentanyl Seizure Days After Trump Tariff Warning

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President-elect Donald Trump recently threatened a 25 percent tariff against Mexico if it didnโ€™t act to curb illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking.

Mexican security forces said on Dec. 4 that they had made the largest fentanyl seizure in the countryโ€™s history, impounding 1,100 kilograms (1.2 tons) of the synthetic opioid in the state of Sinaloa.

Mexicoโ€™s top security official, Omar Garcรญa Harfuch, said in a statement that more than a ton of fentanyl was seized by officials in Sinaloa state. Several guns were also seized, and two men were arrested, he said.

โ€œThis is an investigation that has been going on for a long time, and yesterday, it gave these results,โ€ Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said at a press conference on Dec. 4, referring to the fentanyl seizures.

Violence has worsened recently in Sinaloa, where factions of the Sinaloa Cartel have been engaged in bitter fighting that flared after the capture of kingpin Ismael โ€œEl Mayoโ€ Zambada in July.

โ€œThese actions will continue until the violence in the state of Sinaloa decreases,โ€ Harfuch said.

Sinaloa is home to the powerful drug cartel that bears the same name and was formerly headed by longtime drug lord Joaquรญn โ€œEl Chapoโ€ Guzmรกn, who is currently incarcerated at the ADX Florence federal prison in Colorado.

Security forces found the fentanyl at two properties in the municipality of Ahome after intelligence work and tip-offs from the public led them to investigate there.

In one building, law enforcement found 800 kilograms (1,763 pounds) of fentanyl, some precursor chemicals, and four vehicles. In the other, they discovered 11 packages totaling about 300 kg (660 pounds) of fentanyl, as well as precursors, scales, and industrial mixers.

Former Mexican President Andrรฉs Manuel Lรณpez Obrador, who handed over power to Sheinbaum in October, repeatedly denied that Mexico was a center for the production of fentanyl despite significant evidence to the contrary.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump recently threatened to levy a 25 percent tariff against Mexico and Canada if either country didnโ€™t do enough to curb illegal immigration and fentanyl trafficking into the United States.

Byย Jack Phillips

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