The United States blames Mexican drug traffickers for flooding their streets with fentanil and other drugs, but in their 2024 report, the DEA recognizes that in addition to Jalisco New Generation cartels and the Sinaloa cartelthere are local criminal organizations that sell fentanyl.
“Some members of independent gangs and traffickers are so prolific that they have established direct contact with the wholesalers connected to the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels and They have gone from being street traffickers to suppliers at the regional level. Like its criminal counterparts based in Mexico, the neighborhood bands, Local traffickers and gang members endanger US communities when selling fentanylmethamphetamine, cocaine, heroine and other drugs, and by committing shootings, murders, vehicle robberies, assaults and robberies, ”reads the report.
The Executive order Donald Trump signed hours after assuming his second term to combat organizations that, he says, have flooded that country “with mortal drugs, violent criminals and vicious gangs,” took shape on the morning of this February 19.
The United States Department of State spread a list that contains already has names and acronym for criminal organizations: the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS), the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), the Northeast (CDN), United Cartels, the Michoacan family and the Gulf Cartel.
From this designation, these six Mexican cartels will be under the jurisdiction of the United States, regardless of that their location is not in US lands. In addition, the Trump government is enabled to take all the means that you consider necessary to eliminate them because They represent a threat to the United States, including unilateral operations in Mexican territory.
Start through the United States
Before the formalization of the United States to catalog cartels as terrorists, President Claudia Sheinbaum questioned why Trump did not start for her country.
“They start for their country … they have a lot to do in the United States. How does fentanil or any other drug arrive – which is not right to happen illegally and we do our work in our country – but how is it that it comes? What happens after the border? Who operates the distribution of the drug? Who sells the drug in the cities of the United States, which have caused so much tragedy? Where is the money for the sale of that drug in the United States? ”He said in his Conference on February 7 .
Fentanyl is a highly profitable drug, so in addition to Mexican organizations, in the United States there are those who agree to transport and sell that substance.
A Cato Institute report reveals that citizens Americans represented 80% of people trapped with fentanyl during border crossings in the entrance ports between 2019 and 2024.
Of the 7,569 people associated with an seizure of Fentanilo, 6,123 were US citizensaccording to Customs and Border Protection figures (CBP) cited by the report.
(Photo: Edgar Chávez/Cuartoscuro.)
