Mexico's president asks his Chinese counterpart for help in halting chemicals from China used by Mexican drug dealers to illegally produce fentanyl, while also complaining of 'rude threats' from US legislators
President Lopez Obrador writes to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, urging him to help control shipments of fentanyl while complaining about"rude threats" from US legislators over the drug trade.
President Lopez Obrador has previously said that fentanyl is America's problem and is caused by "a lack of hugs" in US families. On Tuesday he doubled down on those themes, but went further, venting in a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping about "rude threats" from US legislators over the drug trade.
"I write to you, President Xi Jinping, not to ask your help on these rude threats, but to ask you for humanitarian reasons to help us by controlling the shipments of fentanyl," the Mexican president wrote. According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, criminal groups ship chemicals from China to Mexico where they are used to produce fentanyl that is smuggled across the US border.
Over the last week, he has fixated on press reports stating that the US National Basketball Association had offered in talks with the players' union to stop testing or penalising players for using marijuana.
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