In a seven-part investigation, The Washington Post traced the synthetic-drug crisis from the back alleys of Tijuana, Mexico, to official Washington and from warehouses in northern Mexico to neighborhoods in Utah, Colorado and San Diego.
As fentanyl trafficking boomed, U.S. counternarcotics cooperation with Mexico deteriorated. U.S. border authorities are now overwhelmed, and, since July, the volume of fentanyl seized coming across the Mexico border each month has doubled from earlier in the year.. The DEA said it is now taking direct aim at the cartels and the epidemic.A load of fentanyl and methamphetamine seized near Ensenada, Mexico, arrives at the Mexican attorney general’s Tijuana office on Oct. 18.
Mexican cartel chemists learned to make fentanyl themselves, quickly replacing China as the main source of the drug and operating on a much larger scale, according to the DEA.can be manufactured in a small lab with relatively accessible chemicals. The entire process to a finished product can take just a few days.Seizing the precursor chemicals that traffickers need is extremely difficult. Many are used to make basic goods, such as medicines, pesticides and soap.at U.S.
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