Mexico and the United States will launch a campaign to prevent the use of fentanyl, which is causing tens of thousands of deaths on American soil, the two countries agreed during a visit by a senior White House official in the Mexican capital on Thursday. (AFP)

He Government of Mexico and the United States agreed to conduct a bi-national campaign “coming soon” to prevent the consumption of fentanylwhich kills tens of thousands on American soil.

The news was released after a meeting between the Presidential National Security Advisor of the United States, Elizabeth Sherwood Randalland the Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard.

Fentanyl is an opiate 50 times more potent than heroin and has caused the death of 70,000 people in the United States in 2022 alone. Its production and trafficking is controlled by Mexican cartels with chemical precursors from China.

The announcement comes after Republican congressmen introduced a bill to appoint the Mexican Cartels as “Terrorist” Groups and several senators to ask the government of Joe Biden to authorize the American army to fight criminals on Mexican territory, an intention criticized by the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

With information from AFP

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