“This is key to making fenta, and is very hard to find outside China,” he said. The cartel member refuses to lay out all the chemicals used to synthesize the opioid, but he does showcase what he says is a “crucial chemical” in the process: a flask of a substance labeled as 4-Piperidone, which he claimed was delivered from China. But the man in the white hazmat inside the laboratory says otherwise. “I write to you, President Xi Jinping, not to ask your help on these rude threats, but to ask you for humanitarian reasons to help us by controlling the shipments of fentanyl,” the Mexican president wrote.Ĭhina’s government later denied any involvement in the illegal trafficking of fentanyl with the help of cartels. In April, López Obrador sent a letter to the Chinese government asking them to crack down on shipments of fentanyl to North America. He blamed China for producing the opioids that have killed more than 70,000 people in the U.S. “Here, we do not produce fentanyl, and we do not have consumption of fentanyl,” López Obrador said back in March. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador often denies that labs like the one in Culiacán exist in Mexico.
“It is always easier to just get the fentanyl already made from China and then just press it into pills, but sometimes the product gets seized and a safer way is to import the precursors and then make our own fentanyl,” he told The Daily Beast. He said it took two months to learn how to synthesize the powerful opioid, and how to mix it with other precursors to make pills, intended for shipping to the U.S. He said he was taught how to manufacture fentanyl by a Chinese man over two years ago. The man is a chemist for the Sinaloa cartel.
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