WASHINGTON (apro) – The Senate of the United States federal Congress approved a motion as part of the bill on defense spending that involves confiscating and expropriating property from drug traffickers who transfer fentanyl and chemical precursors to produce the lethal substance.
The measure is symbolic as an expression of the Senate, since in the United States there is already a law, the “Kingpin Act”, implemented by the Treasury Department and which confiscates and expropriates assets and freezes bank accounts of groups dedicated to drug trafficking.
“We are taking another big step against the Mexican cartels and against China for sending deadly drugs into our country,” said Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, sponsor of the motion.
The legislative action is just another example of how the United States is looking for scapegoats abroad in the face of the federal government’s inability to solve the great crisis of consumption of synthetic drugs made with fentanyl that their society is suffering.
The Kingpin Act
A few days ago the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) updated the number of deaths caused by an overdose with synthetic drugs made with fentanyl during 2022.
The US federal government through the CDC indicated that last year at least 110,000 people died due to overdoses, 301 people every day.
The Kingpin Act is a law that for decades has been applied to members of Mexican cartels, such as Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán and his sons, Ismael El Mayo Zambada García and his sons, and the bosses of other criminal organizations, such as the Jalisco Nueva Cartel. Generation, Los Zetas and La Familia Michoacana, among others.
The unilateral US measure applies to members of criminal cells, which presumably implicates them in drug trafficking and money laundering from the sale of narcotics.
The measure approved in the Senate had previously had the endorsement of the House of Representatives, with the premise that what this action by the Capitol seeks is already stipulated in an existing law.
The Treasury Department that applies the “Kingpin Act” does not make exceptions regarding narcotics, the law applies to the trafficking of all drugs (drug trafficking), which includes fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, amphetamines, methamphetamines and other substances illicit
faults
Before addressing their crisis of unstoppable consumption of synthetic drugs and fentanyl that goes hand in hand with overdose deaths, US legislators choose to blame Mexico for what is happening to them without analyzing that their situation is a reflection of the failure of their war against drugs and not addressing a problem of public health and education.
US congressmen and even the White House accuse Mexican drug traffickers of being the source of the problem of fentanyl trafficking in the United States when the reality, accepted by their own Department of Justice, is that the gringo cartels are in the market for this lethal drug. they are a crucial part and dominate the sale and transport.
