“And [le fentanyl] is not produced in China, so where is it produced?” launched, on April 10, the Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, taken up in particular by the daily The Conference. For days now, this opioid, which killed tens of thousands of people in 2021, most of them in the United States, has sparked a war of declarations between Mexico City, Beijing and Washington.
“If you read the latest statements, it would seem that fentanyl and its derivatives do not exist. Nobody synthesizes it, nobody transports it, nobody consumes it. It is the work of the Holy Spirit”, quips the Mexican site However under the title “Fentanyl and geopolitics”.
AMLO was careful not to attack China directly: “It is not a question of accusing that
