The massive methamphetamine laboratories that the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel has in Texas

The Mexican Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)one of the most powerful criminal organizations in the world, has been operating clandestine methamphetamine laboratories in TexasUnited States, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

According to Kltv, the agents of the DEA in the east of Texas they discovered a “massive scale” methamphetamine manufacturing lab near the city of tyler. This laboratory is funded by the CJNGwhose leader is Nemesio Oseguera, alias ‘El Mencho’for whom the United States is offering a $10 million reward.

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The manufacture of said drug is also known as glasswas done in a trailer big. In that place the DEA found more than 170 kilos of methamphetamine.

The agent of the DEA Kaleb Sanderson said this lab was serving the Dallas/Ft. worth.

The crystal seized from the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel in Texas. (DEA).

How did you do in CJNG to establish yourself in Texas? Sanderson said the main misconception of cartels is that they are disorganized and disorderly groups. On the contrary, He assured that they are “like Amazon”.

“They have bankers, pilots, and the amount of cash they have is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. They have legitimate businesses that they use to launder your money. These cartels also allied with different gangs in the United States… There are no limits of race or ethnicity. They have no limitations of any kind to earn money”, Sanderson detailed.

He added that the tablets that are manufactured have been refined to look like real pharmaceutical pills, which means that many buyers assume that they are ingesting legitimate and safe drugs.

According to the DEA, six out of ten pills sold on the street in USA contain a lethal dose of fentanyl.

Nemesio Oseguera, alias El Mencho, the most wanted drug trafficker in Mexico.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States describe the fentanyl as a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. It is a major contributing factor to fatal and non-fatal overdoses in the United States.

Univision reported that the trailer and what they found in the laboratory of Tyler are now part of the evidence that has been integrated into a criminal file maintained by the Eastern District of Texas Department of Justice (DOJ).

Currently, the region made up of Dallas and Houston is where the most laboratories have been detected in recent months, some 23, reported Univisión.

He CJNG use these laboratories to “recrystallize” the liquid methamphetamine that its carriers bring across the US-Mexico border, Univision said.

He added that “recrystallize” the liquid methamphetamine can generate dangerous and highly explosive gases. The risk is for the “cook”, the community around him and the environment. “Each pound of methamphetamine manufactured can generate up to five pounds of toxic waste that seeps into the soil and groundwater,” Univisión said.

The drug traffickers usually install these laboratories in private residences, motel and hotel rooms, apartments, mobile homes, campgrounds, and commercial establishments.

Jenn Bennett, who is high on fentanyl, sits on her skateboard with a visible black eye as her friend, Jesse Williams, smokes the drug in Los Angeles, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) .

According to the US authorities, the consumer who uses glasswhen buying a new dose you could actually be consuming a product that contains fentanyl.

In recent months, the traffic of the fentanyl It has generated friction between Mexico and the United States. Some Republican congressmen and politicians have demanded stronger action from Mexico to combat synthetic drug trafficking, which is estimated to have caused some 71,000 overdose deaths in 2021, according to the AP agency.

According to the DEA, the United States arrested more than 3,000 people associated with the Mexican cartels and seized almost 44 million pills. fentanyl in the period of one year.

From May 1, 2022 to May 1, 2023, the DEA “tracked distribution networks in the United States that are connected to the Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels”.

The US drug agency added that the cartels “use social networks and encrypted platforms to carry out their operations and reach the victims.”

Regarding the business of fentanylAccording to the authorities of Mexico and the United States, there is an alliance between Mexican cartels and Chinese mafias to produce the drug, which has the United States as its final destination.

According to the DEA, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) and the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP) of Mexico, the boom in drug trafficking fentanyl It began in 2017. Until then, the opioid used to be sent from China to US cities, BBC Mundo explained.

But the route changed when the Jalisco Nueva Generación and Sinaloa cartels began to import chemical precursors to make fentanyl in their own laboratories located in Mexico.

From China, shipments arrive at Mexican ports in the Pacific, especially Manzanillo, Colima and Lázaro Cárdenas and Michoacán.

According to BBC Mundo, the opioid moves to clandestine laboratories where other drugs are added. The most common is cocaine or heroin. The mixture is divided into pills that are shipped to the United States.

And why do the Mexican mafias now prefer fentanyl trafficking? The main reason is the high profitability of the business. It costs an average of $32,000 to make a kilo of the opioid, according to the US Department of Justice. With that kilo of fentanyl can produce a million doseswhich in the US market sells for an average of US$20 million.

Source: Elcomercio