As America’s opioid crisis intensifies, criticism is coming from an unlikely source: Mexico. Mexican President Andrés Manual Lopez Obrador, speaking to CBS yesterday, attempted to take a moral stand on illegal drugs, claiming that his country did not have such high levels of consumption because it has “customs and traditions” without the problem of the “disintegration of the family”. AMLO claimed that the problem of fentanyl production was shared between the US, Mexico and Canada, but that his nation’s strong value system was the reason for its comparatively low rate of drug use.
NEW: Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador calls out the U.S. drug problem, blames the United States for promoting the disintegration of the family.
“Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada & in Mexico and the chemical precursors come from Asia.”
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What Obrador neglected to mention however, was that a recent Reuters report found that drug-taking in Mexico is sharply on the rise. While the country still doesn’t have the consumption levels of the US, the prevalence of drugs is reportedly increasing due to unsold excess product not making it into the US and being sold cheaply in Mexico. AMLO might bear in mind that people in glass houses shouldn’t get stoned…
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