MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Friday that U.S. 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 the 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.
On Friday, the Mexican president told a morning news briefing that the problem was caused by “a lack of hugs, of embraces.”
“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 U.S. crisis. “That is why they (U.S. officials) should be dedicating funds to address the causes.”
López Obrador has repeatedly said that Mexico’s close-knit family values are what have saved it from the wave of fentanyl overdoses. Experts say that Mexican cartels are making so much money now from the U.S. market that they see no need to sell fentanyl in their home market.
Cartels frequently sell methamphetamines in Mexico, where the drug is more popular because it purportedly helps people work harder.
López Obrador has been stung by calls in the United States to designate Mexican drug gangs as terrorist organizations. Some Republicans have said they favor using the U.S. military to crack down on the Mexican cartels.
On Wednesday, López Obrador called anti-drug policies in the U.S. 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.
U.S. authorities estimate that most illegal fentanyl is produced in clandestine Mexican labs using Chinese precursor chemicals. Relatively little of the illegal market comes from diverting medicinal fentanyl used as anesthesia in surgeries and other procedures.
There have been only scattered and isolated reports of glass flasks of medicinal fentanyl making it to the illegal market. Most illegal fentanyl is pressed by Mexican cartels into counterfeit pills made to look like other medications like Xanax, oxycodone or Percocet.
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Maybe President Obrador should have hugged the members of the cartels!
HE probably already does.. AS He receives his pay off from them.
Anyone think this drug dealer would have said something like this when Trump was in office? Of course Trump wouldn’t have bowed his head to him like senile Joe Biden did.
America has lost it’s place in the world order due to butt kissing Biden.
Obviously, Joe did not give his own kids enough hugs that later in life had to fill his empty ignored and unloved, unhugged bodies with drugs, except in the case of his daughter he used to shower naked with as written in her found diary. Just how many ways can a society be duped into believing this creepy crime family is worthy to be the moral standard of a once great successful nation, now on its knees stooping to every pathological immediate drug gratification to divert the mind from its own self-chosen corruption? Just how culpable is an American media in the defrauding of WE THE PEOPLE of informed opportunity to see these creeps for the fallen human conditions they represent, and not have to elect the frauds into positions of power over us, they who have no will power over their own addictions and unreality imaginations that defy the basic laws of nature, which if left to work as designed would have culled them from the political scene decades ago but for their ability to deceive and manipulate on a massive collective national scale.
When Nixon started the ‘war on drugs’ in the 70s, HE SHOULD HAVE MADE IT a proper war, and send in special forces AFTER EVERY cartel there was.. NOT just those in central/south america, BUT EVERYWHERE drugs are made.
Lack of hugs
Correction, lack of a WALL.
To some extent he is right. The breakdown of the family has made drugs more appealing to some people. The breakdown in faith is an even bigger reason. When you have no higher purpose, when you believe that you are worthless, that this life is all there is, when you live your life in despair then drugs allow you to remove yourself from your self-defined reality.
However, there is NO question that the cartels are capitalizing on this despair and making sure that they are providing the means for people to ‘check-out’ of life in general (and in many cases permanently). Not to put too fine a point on it but they are doing the work of the devil.
It seems to me that el presidente is in the pockets of the cartels and trying to stay alive by blaming everyone but Mexico and the cartels for the problems they are supporting and aiding to make worse.
Obrador is as devoid as BOZO JOE! Next thing you know we will be hearing about the creation of a Federal Hug Department from Barely There Biden and his Grifters!
Don’t many leftist colleges, already have something akin to that, with their comfort pets, and such?