Mexico and the US Are Divided By Guns and Fentanyl
The two neighbors see the toll taken on their citizens by violence and drugs in very different ways and can’t agree on which poses the most pressing threat.
Fentanyl isn’t the only thing that kills.
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Mexico and the United States are telling us they see eye-to-eye on organized crime. They don’t.
On July 24, the Department of Homeland Security announced that officials from the US and Mexico reinforced their commitment to “joint efforts” to disrupt the trafficking of fentanyl and its precursors across the border from Mexico to the US, as well as the flow of weaponry moving in the other direction.