US efforts against fentanyl have been ramping up. Specifically, the Trump administration has turned its focus to one specific Mexican cartel – La Familia Michoacana.
The US has increased financial sanctions on the fentanyl trade, specifically targeting the cartel’s foothold in Lázaro Cárdenas – Mexico’s largest Pacific port. This position allows La Familia Michoacan to import the precursor materials direct from China and India. In case that wasn’t enough, a bounty has been placed on the cartel’s leaders, the Olascoaga brothers.
Fentanyl will remain a problem for the US, but at least there won’t be any in your easter eggs this year…hopefully.