The Yankee Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds and Fails to Address Their Fentanyl Crisis

“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat

The fentanyl trafficking crisis in the U.S. is not new, but to hide the mess, it is easier to blame others and create political discourse to reinforce the lie.

Since 2019, DEA reports already recognize the existence of gringo Cartels such as the “Crips”, with presence in at least 28 states of the American Union.

In addition, the same reports detail that the trafficking of fentanyl powder arrives in the mail from China! For its part, the UN reveals how laboratories have been dismantled in several countries, including the United States.

Even though the US recognizes that there is a problem, they don’t address it! and it seems better to blame Mexico for everything?

Salvador Maceda: They say that before you blame you must first acknowledge. The crisis in the United States over fentanyl trafficking is not new. It has a black history of 4 years ago. On the facade, the American union claims to be a victim, but it hasn’t looked at its own backyard to see the mess it has there. 

Cesar Arce: The United States is the country that has had the most fentanyl seizures and deaths in the last three or four years.

Salavador Maceda: The same reports of the US anti-drug agency recognize that the illegal transit comes from 2019. It details that the fentanyl powder arrives in the mail from China. This is even shown in the map of that report that we have consulted. This is a nation that has created a system of trafficking and people in the face of the growing demand from the United States. Some seizures revealed that they were sending one kilogram doses with ninety percent pure fentanyl. In a 2017 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported the dismantling of clandestine home laboratories in those nations. The United States also figures there. There were two laboratories with a much longer history. One in 2013 and two others in 2015.

Federico Anaya: In 2019 the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officially recognizes in a report that these cartels do exist. These criminal organizations already have a presence in the United States. They call them gangs. But they have to be called what they are. They are organizations that have a whole criminal structure. They have control of territories. They mention that there are these four organizations. One of them is called the Crips and they have a presence in the United States. And we are going to mention each one of the cities so that you can see that map and the magnitude that these U.S. cartels have. Washington, Montana, Wyoming, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Minnesota, Iowa, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Mississippi, and Alabama. This report is preceded by another report from 2020, also from the DEA. Where they already recognize that these cartels, these gangs are mixing heroin with fentanyl to increase the addiction of all consumers. The same authorities in the United States acknowledged this. 

Diego Borbolla: It is the DEA itself that has an interactive map showing that in at least 22 states of the United States in the year 2022 chemical products were located. Here we can see them in this map that we are consulting at the moment, which gives indications that in these points there are clandestine drug laboratories. Chemical products, various items that the DEA itself makes available to the public. This information is available online. Let’s also remember the alert that came out in August 2022. A new modality of rainbow fentanyl that was manufactured to attract teenagers. And the DEA also makes known that in 26 states of the American union this kind of fentanyl was seized. Also two months later, in October 2022, it announces an important arrest. It was of an American, a woman named Latisha Bush. Originally from New Jersey and arrested in New York with about 15,000 rainbow fentanyl pills hidden in plastic Legos. 

Cesar Arce: A larger quantity than necessary almost inevitably causes death, cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest.

Salvador Maceda: They have created a political discourse to blame foreigners on the other side of their southern border in order to hide the mess that they have in their own backyard. 

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