Mexican cartels such as those in Sinaloa or Tijuana send a message: “The sale, manufacture, transportation or any type of business that involves the substance known as Fentanyl.” In this way they have declared war on this drug. The least surprising, because precisely they are some of the main distributors of a substance that is killing thousands of people in USA.

“The Department of Justice is attacking every aspect of cartel operations. And the leaders of these cartels known as the ‘Chapitos,'” Attorney General Merrick Garland recently announced. They are the ones who sign some of those messages in which they call for the prohibition of drugs. Joaquín’s own children, Chapo Guzmánwho was the leader of the Sinaloa cartel.

All of this could have an explanation. According to the Wall Street Journal, US pressure on cartels has intensified in recent months. “The United States and Mexico are working together as partners with a common purpose,” Antony Blinken, Secretary of State of the North American country, has declared in recent hours. The Mexican Government is also collaborating.

However, what no one expected is that it was themselves, the cartels themselves, that would ban the production of Fentanyl under threat: “Due to the incessant misinformation from some media outlets and the obvious omission of the government in not investigating and prosecuting the real culprits of this epidemic. We have never been nor will we be part of that business. “Depend on the consequences.”