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EPISODE · Jan 28, 2025 · 28 MIN

How Fentanyl Producers in Mexico Are Adapting to a Challenging Market

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After five years of booming fentanyl trafficking in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, “the bosses,” as he called the Sinaloa Cartel faction of the Chapitos, issued a blunt directive: stop all production in the state.Sinaloa had long been the epicenter in Mexico of illicit fentanyl production, a synthetic opioid linked to hundreds of thousands of overdoses across North America over the past decade. According to US authorities, the Chapitos – the sons of the infamous drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – were among the key figures driving this epidemic.How Fentanyl Producers in Mexico Are Adapting to a Challenging Market | Written by Victoria Dittmar and Paulina Ríos, and narrated by Victoria Dittmar.Visit insightcrime.org for more information.

After five years of booming fentanyl trafficking in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, “the bosses,” as he called the Sinaloa Cartel faction of the Chapitos, issued a blunt directive: stop all production in the state.Sinaloa had long been the epicenter in Mexico of illicit fentanyl production, a synthetic opioid linked to hundreds of thousands of overdoses across North America over the past decade. According to US authorities, the Chapitos – the sons of the infamous drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – were among the key figures driving this epidemic.How Fentanyl Producers in Mexico Are Adapting to a Challenging Market | Written by Victoria Dittmar and Paulina Ríos, and narrated by Victoria Dittmar.Visit insightcrime.org for more information.

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