Fentanyl killed around 75,000 Americans last year and roughly the same number the year before. Most of it comes across the border from Mexico where the cartels have found it a much easier product to ship than other drugs, in part because it’s so much more potent and requires less space, time and material to produce.
Sunday the NY Times published a story in which three reporters were allowed into a fentanyl lab and even allowed to take some photos. On the one hand, the story suggests that the incoming Trump administration is already having some impact on the cartels.
After President-elect Donald J. Trump threatened tariffs if the country didn’t stop drugs from crossing the border, Mexico’s security forces announced their largest seizure of fentanyl ever this month: 20 million doses of the drug.
Criminal groups have had to adjust to the new conditions on the ground. Fearing law enforcement raids or attacks by their rivals, they say they’re moving their labs around more often than usual and producing drugs in new locations.
The cartels are scurrying a bit, which seems good. On the other hand, when the reporters finally get into a “lab” it’s just a home that had been set up that day.
The lab was hidden in a house right in the city center in Culiacán, on a bustling street full of pedestrians, cars and food stands. There were no smells or fumes outside that would have alerted a passer-by to the large quantities of fentanyl being cooked behind the door…
“They busted in on us this morning,” the boss said. Earlier that day, he explained, the Mexican military had raided one of his crew’s labs, which forced them to bring their material to this makeshift site.
A few guys working in a non-descript house on a regular street were cooking about a pound of raw fentanyl, about enough to make 200,000 doses. That really puts the claim of a 20 million dose seizure in perspective. All these guys need is chemicals, hazmat suits and a regular kitchen to create 1% of that amount in a fairly short amount of time.
You get the impression that this isn’t something that can be stamped out, not if every single house in Mexico is a potential fentanyl lab and not when the rewards for doing this are so high. The main cook in this story is a multi-millionaire. […]
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