“The people that come to work in customs are subject to pressures,” Griselda Martínez, Manzanillo’s mayor, told the Financial Times. “If they accept what one group proposes, they are killed ... and if they don’t accept, they are too.”
Members of the Mexican navy check suspicious shipments at the pre-inspection area of the SSA precint for detection of illicit substances in Manzanillo, Colima state, Mexico on July 19th. Photograph: Ulises Ruiz/AFP via Getty ImagesIn Manzanillo, cranes lift newly arrived containers filled with everything from clothes and powdered milk to car parts.
From the port, the chemicals are taken to Mexico’s northern states and mixed and pressed into pills, experts said. Unlike vast fields for poppies or marijuana, which depend on suitable weather production, synthetic drug “laboratories” can be set up quickly in houses and go undetected even in urban areas.
From there, the drugs are transported across the land border by “mules”, who are often American women, according to a recent US indictment. Some are flown over in private planes. The fentanyl was then distributed using similar US networks as for other drugs, experts said. Synthetic drugs in a clandestine laboratory in Sinaloa state, Mexico, in June. Photograph: Rashide Frias/AFP via Getty Images
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