Government of Venezuela detains a man with fentanyl on the border with Colombia

authorities of Venezuela They arrested a man with45 servings” of fentanyl in the state tachiraborder with Colombiainformed the Governor of the region in a statement released this Monday, which does not specify which State security body carried out the operation.

According to the governor of Táchira, Freddie Bernalis the first seizure of this drug made in the state that leads, which has put in “full alert” to the regional authorities.

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In addition, it is also the first to be reported in VenezuelaTherefore, it is unknown if there were more findings of this nature in other areas of the country.

Bernal regretted that this opioid reached Venezuelan territory, but assured that the measures will intensify to “stop the advance” of this drug.

“We are the retaining wall of the border”, expressed the governor, who recalled that tachira ranks first inefficiency in the fight against drug trafficking”.

In addition, he called on merchants and owners of entertainment establishments in the region to take measures to prevent this drug from spreading.

Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid fifty times stronger than morphine and the cause of the worst drug crisis in the history of USAwhere last year more than 70,000 people died from an overdose of this substance.

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According to the Government of Joe Bidenthe Mexican cartels of sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation produce the fentanyl in clandestine laboratories using chemical products and cosmetics that they legally acquire from China and then trafficked and distributed on US soil.

But the Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorhas repeatedly denied that fentanyl is produced in his country, arguing that the drug comes directly from China to the United States and that Mexico only a small part passes.

Source: Elcomercio

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