Mexico’s president says that US families were to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don’t hug their kids enough.
The comment by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador caps a week of provocative statements from him about the crisis caused by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels that has been blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per year in the United States.López Obrador said family values have broken down in the United States because parents don’t let their children live at home long enough. He has also denied that Mexico produces fentanyl.
“There is a lot of disintegration of families, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces,” López Obrador said of the US crisis. “That is why they should be dedicating funds to address the causes.”Credit:López Obrador has repeatedly said that Mexico’s close-knit family values are what has saved it from the wave of fentanyl overdoses.
López Obrador has been stung by calls in the United States to designate Mexican drug gangs as terrorist organisations. Some Republicans have said they favour using the US military to crack down on the Mexican cartels.On Wednesday, López Obrador called anti-drug policies in the US a failure Wednesday and proposed a ban in both countries on using fentanyl in medicine — even though little of the drug crosses from hospitals into the illegal market.
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