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  • Why the U.S. is pressuring China amid a crackdown on the global fentanyl trade

    Why the U.S. is pressuring China amid a crackdown on the global fentanyl trade

    Oct 08, 2023 09:30 PM EDT

    ... in Mexico, so much so that even earlier this year, in the spring, we have had President Lopez Obrador making claims that there is no fentanyl produced in Mexico, even though we know that Mexico is the predominant place that fentanyl sympathized (ph). In recent weeks, there has been more ...

  • Sen. Schumer discusses trade, fentanyl crisis with China on 1st day of congressional visit to Asia

    Sen. Schumer discusses trade, fentanyl crisis with China on 1st day of congressional visit to Asia

    Oct 07, 2023 07:54 PM EDT

    ... contribute to a more objective understanding of China in the U.S. Congress.” Schumer also raised the issue of Chinese companies that have stopped making fentanyl but which the U.S. government says continue to supply the ingredients for production of the opioid in Mexico. “They are fueling the fentanyl ...

  • WATCH: U.S. announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers

    WATCH: U.S. announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers

    Oct 03, 2023 08:25 PM EDT

    ... on them to designate Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And last year a group of Republican attorneys general asked the president to declare fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. No such actions have been taken. Fentanyl, a powerful opioid, is the deadliest drug in the U.S. today ...

  • News Wrap: DOJ charges Chinese companies with trafficking fentanyl chemicals

    News Wrap: DOJ charges Chinese companies with trafficking fentanyl chemicals

    Jun 23, 2023 10:55 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Friday, the Justice Department charged four Chinese companies and eight individuals with trafficking precursor chemicals for fentanyl, Canada and the U.S. have begun investigations into the Titan submersible tragedy and Pakistan says around 350 Pakistani nationals were on a packed fishing trawler that sank off the coast of Greece last week.

  • WATCH: Attorney General Garland holds news briefing on fighting fentanyl supply

    WATCH: Attorney General Garland holds news briefing on fighting fentanyl supply

    Jun 23, 2023 03:15 PM EDT

    ... based chemical companies shipped more than 200 kilograms of fentanyl related precursor chemicals to the U.S. for the purpose of making 50 kilograms of fentanyl, a quantity that could contain enough deadly doses of fentanyl to kill 25 million Americans," Attorney General Merrick Garland said. Garland told reporters two ...

  • Sons of 'El Chapo' deny U.S. allegations of fentanyl trafficking

    Sons of 'El Chapo' deny U.S. allegations of fentanyl trafficking

    May 04, 2023 09:42 PM EDT

    ... of persecution and have been made into scapegoats.” Milenio Television first reported the letter Wednesday. NEWS WRAP: 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged in U.S. fentanyl trafficking case U.S. prosecutors detailed in court documents last month how the Sinaloa cartel had become the largest exporter of fentanyl to the ...

  • WATCH: Garland announces results of operation targeting dark web opioid, fentanyl traffickers

    WATCH: Garland announces results of operation targeting dark web opioid, fentanyl traffickers

    May 02, 2023 02:40 PM EDT

    ... this operation again shows that international cooperation is essential in combating crime on the dark web.”The seized drugs include 64 kilograms (141 pounds) of fentanyl or fentanyl-laced narcotics; over 258 kilograms (569 pounds) of amphetamines; 43 kilograms (95 pounds) of cocaine; 43 kilogram (95 pounds) of MDMA; and ...

  • News Wrap: 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged in U.S. fentanyl trafficking case

    News Wrap: 28 Sinaloa cartel members charged in U.S. fentanyl trafficking case

    Apr 14, 2023 10:50 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Friday, the DOJ charged 28 members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel in a fentanyl trafficking investigation, Montana is poised to impose the nation's first total ban on TikTok, France's Constitutional Council approved a plan raising the retirement age to 64 and the Saudi-backed ...

  • WATCH: Garland announces charges against El Chapo sons and Sinaloa cartel for fentanyl trafficking

    WATCH: Garland announces charges against El Chapo sons and Sinaloa cartel for fentanyl trafficking

    Apr 14, 2023 04:36 PM EDT

    The Justice Department has charged 28 members of Mexico's powerful Sinaloa cartel, including sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in a sprawling fentanyl-trafficking investigation.

  • Mix of vet tranquilizer, fentanyl ‘emerging threat,' White House drug office says

    Mix of vet tranquilizer, fentanyl ‘emerging threat,' White House drug office says

    Apr 12, 2023 04:56 PM EDT

    The U.S. has named a veterinary tranquilizer as an "emerging threat" when it's mixed with the powerful opioid fentanyl, clearing the way for more efforts to stop the spread of xylazine. The Office of National Drug Control Policy announced the designation Wednesday, the first time the office has ...

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