The head of Mexico's detective service says his country is the 'champion' of fentanyl production
methamphetamine at the biggest drug lab found during the current administration. The lab was in Quiriego, a township in a remote part of the northern border state of Sonora.
The 91,000 pounds (41,310 kilograms) of meth found there was more than half of the 162,000 pounds of the drug Mexico has seized so far this year. Fentanyl production is also huge, though because it is a more potent drug, the volume is smaller.
A year ago, soldiers seized more than a half-million fentanyl pills in Culiacan in what the army at the time described as the largest synthetic drug lab found to date. Soldiers found almost 630,000 pills that appeared to contain fentanyl, the army said.
They also reported seizing 282 pounds (128 kilograms) of powdered fentanyl and about 220 pounds (100 kilograms) of suspected methamphetamine. López Obrador, who took office on Dec.
1 2018, also claims that Mexicans are culturally immune to drug addiction. Milestone Alert!
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