Mexican leader states US fentanyl crisis due to absence of hugs

Associated Press

Since they don't hug their kids enough, MEXICO CITY-- Mexico's president stated Friday that U.S. households were to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis.

The comment by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador caps a week of provocative statements from him about the crisis caused by the fentanyl, a synthetic opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels that has actually been blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per year in the United States.

López Obrador said household values have actually broken down in the United States, because parents do not let their kids live in your home enough time. He has also rejected that Mexico produces fentanyl.On Friday, the Mexican president told an early morning news instruction that the issue was brought on by "an absence of hugs, of welcomes."

" There is a lot of disintegration of households, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and accepts," López Obrador said of the U.S. crisis. "That is why they (U.S. authorities) ought to be committing funds to resolve the causes."

López Obrador has consistently said that Mexico's close-knit household values are what have waited from the wave of fentanyl overdoses. Experts state that Mexican cartels are making a lot cash now from the U.S. market that they see no need to sell fentanyl in their house market.

Cartels frequently sell methamphetamines in Mexico, where the drug is more popular due to the fact that it purportedly assists individuals work harder.

López Obrador has been stung by contact the United States to designate Mexican drug gangs as terrorist companies. Some Republicans have actually said they favor using the U.S. military to punish the Mexican cartels.

On Wednesday, López Obrador called anti-drug policies in the U.S. a failure Wednesday and proposed a restriction in both nations on utilizing fentanyl in medicine-- although little of the drug crosses from medical facilities into the unlawful market.

U.S. authorities estimate that the majority of illegal fentanyl is produced in clandestine Mexican laboratories utilizing Chinese precursor chemicals. Reasonably little of the unlawful market comes from diverting medical fentanyl used as anesthesia in surgeries and other procedures.

There have been just spread and separated reports of glass flasks of medical fentanyl making it to the illegal market. The majority of prohibited fentanyl is pushed by Mexican cartels into counterfeit pills made to appear like other medications like Xanax, oxycodone or Percocet.