The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has carried out surveillance flights with drones above Mexico in collaboration with the American neighbor in the south, to collect information on cartels and fentanyllaboratories, according to a high American officer.
The BIDEN administration authorized the use of MQ9 Reaper drones, the officer of which said they are not armed and ‘not fatal’, about Mexico to concentrate on locating fentanyllaboratories and cartels.
President Donald Trump’s government continued the program, which is being done in coordination with the Mexican government.
The intelligence is shared with the Mexican governmentWho in turn has the authority to act to close illegal activities related to the cartels and laboratories.
Indian Springs, NV – November 17: (Editors Note: Image was assessed by the US Army prior to the transmission.) An MQ -9 Reaper flies remotely from a distance Aircraft (RPA) during a training mission on Crech Air Force Base on 17 November, 2015, in Indian Springs, Nevada. The Pentagon has plans to expand combat air patrols due to remotely remote aircraft with no less than 50 percent to meet an increased need for monitoring, exploration and fatal air attacks in more areas around the world. (Isaac Brekken/Getty -Members)
“This is not the Pakistan model,” a high American officer told Fox News. “It is being done in collaboration with the Mexican government.”
Felipe de Jesus Gallo, the head of the criminal research agency of Mexico, said last year that since the 1990s “Mexico has been the champion of the production of methamphetamine and now Fentanyl.”
He made the explanation as he spoke to a US-Mexico conference synthetic medicines In Mexico city.
Bundles of blue pills that fentanyl contain, intercepted on the border. (American customs and border protection)
Experts agree that cartels in Mexico use foralchemicals From China And India to make the synthetic opioid and to smuggle it to the United States, where it causes around 70,000 deaths annually by overdose.
Although Fentanyl is not abused on a large scale in Mexico, Methamfetamine -addiction is commonplace.
Gallo said that Mexican cartels have launched the industrial production of meth in many states throughout the country and now export the medicine around the world.
“Believe me, the production of methamphetamine is industrialized, it is not only in the mountains anymore,” Gallo said. “We now expect (drugs) laboratories, not only in the mountains of Sinaloa and Sonora, but also in Hidalgo, Puebla, and also in Jalisco.”
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Hundreds of pounds fentanyl and meth seized near Ensenada in October for civil servants of the Mexicos Attorney Generals Office to be unloaded at their headquarters in Tijuana, Mexico, Tuesday, October 18, 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
He apparently referred to thousands of drug laboratories that were detected in previous years in the hills and bushes around Culiacan, the capital of the northern state of Sinaloa. Those clandestine, national production locations were often bare bones, improvised laboratories covered with tree branches and tarpaulins.
Now the meth -trade has become so lucrative and so advanced that Mexican Meth is exported as far away as Hong Kong or Australia, and the cartels have found ways to prevent detection of their drug money.
The production of fentanyl is also huge, although it is a more powerful medicine, the volume is smaller.
In 2023, soldiers grabbed more than half a million fentanyl pills in Culiacan, in what the army described at the time as the largest synthetic drug laboratory that has been found to date.
Soldiers found nearly 630,000 pills that fentanyl seemed to contain, the army said. They also reported that she seized 282 pounds of powdered fentanyl and about 220 pounds of suspected methamphetamine.
The Associated Press has contributed to this report.
