White House chief calls for swift action against fentanyl trafficking
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The newspaper La Jornada
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, p. 25
New York. World leaders must act faster to cut off the producers of synthetic drugs, such as fentanyl, the leading cause of death among Americans aged 18 to 49, US President Joe Biden said yesterday.
We can’t give upthe president said during a summit of the global coalition on synthetic drug threats held in New York, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Drug manufacturers and cartels They continue to adapt their practices, develop new chemicals and act quickly to evade our efforts, so we have to outmaneuver them and cut them off.he insisted.
The number of overdose deaths in the United States has dropped by 10 percent over the past year, Biden said, but there are still about 100,000 deaths a year, mostly from fentanyl.
Biden called on the leaders of the coalition, made up of nearly 160 countries and 15 international organizations, to act together for interrupt the cycle of violence generated by drug traffickers.
According to the DEA, Mexican cartels are the main producers of fentanyl, with substances coming mainly from China. The US and Mexican governments have resumed collaboration with the Chinese authorities to combat this crisis.
