White powder, purportedly finished fentanyl, at a Sinaloa Cartel fentanyl lab in Culiacán, Mexico, last year. The Mexican government has launched an aggressive crackdown against the cartel.
New York Times reporters documented how fentanyl was concealed by Mexico’s most powerful criminal syndicate, which is adapting in the face of a crackdown by two governments.
Mexico’s president, battling U.S. accusations that the cartels have gripped her government, is facing a scandal in which two former officials are on the run and their old boss is now a top senator.
Adán Augusto López Hernández when he was Mexico’s interior minister. He is at the center of a scandal around men he appointed to security positions in Tabasco State when he was governor.