While cooks produce vast quantities of fentanyl in makeshift labs across Mexico, they are watched over by a small group of expert chemists.
While cooks produce vast quantities of fentanyl in makeshift labs across Mexico, they are watched over by a small group of expert chemists.
Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG depend on a network of brokers to buy precursor chemicals needed to make fentanyl and meth.
The difficulty of sourcing finished fentanyl from China has Mexican groups acquire precursor chemicals to synthesize fentanyl themselves.
InSight Crime’s new report shows the inner workings of Mexico’s synthetic drugs trade and how criminal groups have profited from it.
While fentanyl dominates headlines, Mexico has continued to produce colossal tons of methamphetamine which floods the United States.
The heavy regulation placed on chemical precursors used for meth and fentanyl has seen drug traffickers turn to pre-precursors instead.
Today, most of the marijuana consumed in the United States is produced domestically, changing the game in the international drug market.
Local drug sales in Sinaloa’s capital city are controlled by one of the most notorious and powerful organized crime families in Mexico.
In response to changes in the international marijuana trade, Mexico-based drug trafficking groups have shifted their strategies.
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