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He Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been carrying out surveillance flights with drones about Mexico in association with the American neighbor to the south, to gather intelligence in the posters and fentanyl laboratories, according to a senior US official.
The Biden administration authorized the use of Reaper MQ9 drones, which according to the official are not armed and “non -lethal”, on Mexico to focus on locating laboratories and fentanyl posters.
The administration of President Donald Trump continued the program, which is being done in coordination with the Mexican government.
Intelligence is shared with the Mexican governmentwhich in turn has the authority to act to close any illegal activity associated with posters and laboratories.
Indian Springs, NV – November 17: (Editors note: The image has been reviewed by the United States Army before transmission). A Reaper MQ -9 remotely piloted (RPA) flies during a training mission at the Creech Air Force base on November 17, 2015, in Indian Springs, Nevada. The Pentagon has plans to expand the flights of aerial combat patrols in remotely piloted planes to 50 percent in the coming years to satisfy a greater need for surveillance, recognition and lethal attacks in more areas around the world. (Members of Isaac Brekken/Getty)
“This is not the Pakistan model,” said a senior United States official to Fox News. “It is being done in association with the Mexican government.”
Felipe de Jesús Gallo, head of the Criminal Investigation Agency of Mexico, said last year that since the 1990s “Mexico has been the champion of methamphetamine production, and now Fentanil.”
He made the statement while talking at an American-Mexico conference in synthetic drugs In Mexico City.
Bundas of blue pills containing intercepted fentanyl on the edge. (Customs and border protection of the USA)
Experts agree that posters in Mexico use precursor chemicals from China and India to make synthetic opioid and smuggle it in the United States, where it causes around 70,000 overdose deaths annually.
While fentanil is not widely abused in Mexico, methamphetamine addiction is common.
Gallo said that Mexican posters They have launched a production of methamphetamine at an industrial scale in many states throughout the country and now export the medication worldwide.
“Believe me, the production of methamphetamine has been industrialized, it is no longer only in the mountains,” Gallo said. “Now we hope to see the laboratories (of drugs) not only in the mountains of Sinaloa and Sonora, but also in Hidalgo, Puebla, and also in Jalisco.”
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Hundreds of fentanyl pounds and metanfetism seized near Ensenada in October arrive so that the officials of the Office of Generals of Mexico will be downloaded at their headquarters in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, October 18, 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post through Getty Images)
Apparently he referred to thousands of drug laboratories detected in previous years in the hills and scrubbers around Culiacan, the capital of the northern state of Sinaloa. These clandestine sites of rural production were often basic laboratories, improvised covered with tree and canvase branches.
Now, the commerce of methamphetamine has become so lucrative and so sophisticated that Mexican methamphetamine is exported as far as Hong Kong or Australia, and the posters have found ways to avoid the detection of their drug money.
Fentanyl production is also huge, although because it is a more powerful medication, the volume is smaller.
The soldiers confiscated more than half a million fentanyl pills in Culiacán in 2023, in what the Army at that time described as the larger synthetic drug laboratory that is found to date.
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The soldiers found almost 630,000 pills that seemed to contain fentanil, said the army. They also reported 282 pounds of fentanyl powder and approximately 220 pounds of suspicion of methamphetamine.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
