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How Fentanyl Producers in Mexico Are Adapting to a Challenging Market

After five years of booming fentanyl trafficking in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, “the bosses,” as he called the Sinaloa Cartel faction of the Chapitos, issued a blunt directive: stop all production in the state.Sinaloa had long been the epicenter in Mexico of illicit fentanyl production, a synthetic opioid linked to hundreds of thousands of overdoses across North America over the past decade. According to US authorities, the Chapitos – the sons of the infamous drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – were among the key figures driving this epidemic.<a href="https://insightcrime.org/investigations/fentanyl-producers-mexico-adapting-challenging-market/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">How Fentanyl Producers in Mexico Are Adapting to a Challenging Market</a> | Written by Victoria Dittmar and Paulina Ríos, and narrated by Victoria Dittmar.Visit <a href="https://insightcrime.org" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">insightcrime.org</a> for more information.

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