US EditionMexican drug cartels recruit college students to make fentanyl: Report
- The Sinaloa Cartel aims to recruit chemistry students to create fentanyl, according to reports.
- American officials warn that developing in-house chemical production could lead to increased cartel control over the drug supply chain.
- The cartel's strategy marks a potential new phase in the fentanyl crisis, emphasizing the autonomy in producing synthetic opioids.
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The research published by the New York Times, which reveals the way in which drug traffickers recruit young university students to work in the laboratories where they ‘cooked’ fentanilo arrived at Palacio Nacional, where President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo clarified whether this really happens in Mexico. The president denied that the doga cartels recruited university students: “This coming out in the New York Times that they are young Mexicans, st…
Mexican drug cartels recruit college students to make fentanyl: Report
Mexican drug cartels have a new target for their production of fentanyl and other illicit drugs: chemistry students. Colleges and universities have become the latest recruiting ground for Mexican cartels looking to build their own fentanyl empires. The New York Times reported how the Sinaloa cartel worked to recruit so-called “cooks” to make fentanyl for them. The Sinaloa cartel is one of Mexico’s largest. U.S. authorities said it’s one of the h…
Cartel Strategy May Signal Scary New Phase of Drug War
It's like a work-study program, cartel-style. The New York Times reports that drug cartels in Mexico have been aggressively recruiting chemistry students from college campuses to ramp up their fentanyl game. The overriding goal is to figure out how to produce their own synthetic opioids from scratch and avoid importing...
Mexico City, Dec. 2 (EFE).- Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum denied this Monday that university chemistry students produce fentanyl for the Sinaloa Cartel, as published by The New York Times, who she accused of being inspired by the series ‘Breaking Bad’ (2008-2013) to produce the report. “This comes out in the New York Times that they are young Mexicans, students of chemistry, who are developing drugs, not necessarily (occurre), started els…
Dangerous criminals in Mexico are using vulnerable chemistry students to produce the 'zombie drug' fentanyl.
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