After it was revealed that the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) carried out an “infiltration” in the criminal group Los Chapitos, the faction controlled by the Sinaloa Cartel, to find out the origin of the health crisis that the United States is experiencing due to the consumption of fentanyl, the president of Mexico described the fact as abusive interference and assured that Mexico was not informed.
Erika Pania specialist in the Mexico-United States relationship, stressed that this case reflects that the relationship is very complicated, that it has a great diversity of edges that often goes beyond the actors involved and exchanges that are part of the relationship.
“What can wear out a tense relationship is the fact that it was not reported and in the collaboration between agencies there is the formal and the informal, it makes it difficult for me to assess what the consequence will be in the binational relationship. It is a delicate matter because of what it implies, but it is not something that has never happened, it is not a huge novelty,” he said.
The professor and researcher at the Colegio de México highlighted that the fentanyl crisis causes scandal and It is an issue on which the United States will not stop pressingr.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced that he will “protect” the information of the Armed Forces, since he said that are “objects of espionage” by the United States Pentagon.
Ann Milgram, director of the DEA, said on April 14 that DEA informants followed members of the “Chapitos” to China, where transactions were made to import chemical precursors for the manufacture of fentanyl in clandestine laboratories that were guarded by people armed.
He also reported that the operation lasted a year and a half.
