Shipping Container Filled With Illegal Drugs Found by Mexican Navy Refutes China’s Denials on Fentanyl Trafficking

Shipping Container Filled With Illegal Drugs Found by Mexican Navy Refutes China’s Denials on Fentanyl Trafficking
A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chemist pours 2,500 packs of confirmed fentanyl onto a counter for testing at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory in New York on Oct. 8, 2019. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images
Anne Zhang
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Mexico found fentanyl in a shipping container from China earlier this month, just several weeks after a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said there was no illegal trafficking of the deadly drug between the two nations.

On May 5, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed that the Mexican navy had intercepted a container of smuggled drugs in the southern port of Lázaro Cárdenas a few days earlier, Deutsche Welle reported.
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