128 Global News Post #3

Mexico News Post: Mexican president blames US fentanyl crisis on ‘lack of hugs’ among families

by AP in Mexico City

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador: ‘There is a lot of disintegration of families … there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces.’ Photograph: Lorenzo Hernandez/EPA https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/17/mexico-president-fentanyl-hugs-children-amlo

The president’s remark is the culmination of a week of provocative remarks about the fentanyl epidemic, a synthetic opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels and responsible for about 70,000 overdose deaths annually in the US. Family values have collapsed in the United States, according to López Obrador, also known by his stage name Amlo, because parents don’t allow their kids to stay at home long enough. He has also refuted claims that fentanyl is made in Mexico. The issue, according to the Mexican president, was brought on by “a lack of hugs, of embraces,” he said on Friday during a morning news conference.  “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,” Amlo said of the US crisis. “That is why they [US officials] should be dedicating funds to address the causes.”

This article shows evidence that Mexico produces the most illegal fentanyl using Chinese precursor chemicals and that Cartels frequently sells methamphetamines in Mexico because it helps people work harderr. I think this article is written from Mexico’s perspective because it shows Mexico’s president saying good things about his country and how Mexicans haave good relationships with their families and then goes on to say that US families need to improve their relationships with their kids if they want to lower the consumption of fentanyl.

Guardian News and Media. (2023, March 17). Mexican president blames US fentanyl crisis on ‘lack of hugs’ among families. The Guardian. Retrieved March 26, 2023, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/17/mexico-president-fentanyl-hugs-children-amlo