Authorities located and neutralized two clandestine laboratories and seized twenty -one tons of alleged methamphetamine, in the town Carricitos, in Durango.
In a statement, the Ministry of Citizen Security and Protection (SSPC) reported that this action was carried out during land recognition tours, where they secured approximately twenty -one thousand kilograms of methamphetamine already processed, as well as various chemical precursors.
Among the input were one thousand liters of hydrochloric acid, two hundred liters of acetic acid, one thousand liters of toluene, two hundred liters of benchilo cyanide, 250 liters of P2P, 575 kilograms of caustic soda and two hundred kilograms of sodium cyanide.
“With the above, it was prevented that more than 525,000,000 doses of drugs reach the streets,” said the SSPC and estimated an economic involvement to organized crime of 6.53 million pesos (just over 350,000 dollars).
The operation participated in the Secretariat of the Navy (Semar), in coordination with the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), the Ministry of National Defense (Defense), the National Guard (GN) and the SSPC.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has pressed to the Mexican government to improve its security strategy and threatened to impose tariffs on all imports from Mexico if the country does not take effective measures to curb fentanyl traffic.
At the end of July, both countries reached an agreement to pause for ninety days the imposition of 30% tariffs on Mexican products.
Trump has prioritized fentanyl fight, a synthetic drug that, according to his government, is prepared in countries like Mexico with China’s chemical precursors and caused more than 48,000 deaths due to overdose in the US for 2024, according to the records of the centers for disease control and prevention (CDC).
For its part, the Mexican government has said that, thanks to the ‘North Frontera Operation’, agreed with Trump to avoid tariffs to Mexico, they have been arrested since February to more than 7,000 people and have confiscated more than 94 tons of drugs, including 387 kilograms of fentanil.
With EFE information.
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