Mexico found fentanyl in a shipping container from China earlier this month, just several weeks after a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said there was no illegal trafficking of the deadly drug between the two nations.
On May 5, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed that the Mexican navy had intercepted a container of smuggled drugs in the southern port of Lázaro Cárdenas a few days earlier, Deutsche Welle reported.
The Secretary of Navy Rafael Ojeda said the seized container of 600 packages of fuel resin (34-35 kg each, total weight over 20 tons) was tested and determined to contain fentanyl and methamphetamines….