MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico's government, under mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump to curb drug trafficking, announced Friday that it had seized 18 kilos of fentanyl hidden in a bus.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Mexico 's government, under mounting pressure from US President Donald Trump to curb drug trafficking, announced Friday that it had seized 18 kilos of fentanyl hidden in a bus.Trump has cited illegal flows of the deadly opioid and migrants as the main reasons for a planned 25 percent tariff on Mexican goods that the White House said would take effect on Saturday.
The statement also reported the discovery of four tons of methamphetamine during a raid on a house in Playas de Rosarito, south of California, without saying when the seizures happened.In December, the Mexican government announced what it called 'the largest seizure of fentanyl in history,' totaling more than one million pills.The synthetic opioid, which is 50 times more potent than heroin, has been linked to tens of thousands of overdose deaths in the United States.
Reports Big Fentanyl Seizure Before Tariff Deadline
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