While Others Make Guns and Consume Drugs, Mexico Pays the Price Peter Davies - Mexico News Daily
go to original September 9, 2022

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Federal Security Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez portrayed Mexico as an innocent victim of drug-related violence during an address at a United Nations event in New York last week.

Speaking at the third UN Chiefs of Police Summit, Rodríguez asserted that Mexico doesn’t manufacture the firearms used in cartel-related violence here and that Mexicans don’t consume synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine and fentanyl.

“Do we make the weapons? No. Do we consume the synthetic drugs? No. Do we provide the dead? Unfortunately, yes,” she told a summit event attended by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and security officials from around the world.

While Mexicans may not be large consumers of synthetic drugs, Mexican criminal organizations are major suppliers of them to the United States – the world’s largest illicit drug market – and other countries around the world. An article published by The Wall Street Journal this week details how the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel came to dominate the supply of fentanyl – a potent synthetic opioid – to the United States.

In her address, Rodríguez said that upon taking office in December 2018, President López Obrador “received a nation mired in violence due to the so-called war against drugs undertaken by previous governments.”

The current government decided that the “fire must stop,” she said, asserting that it didn’t take office to “win a war” but to bring peace to the country.

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