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For: The Opinion
Tuesday, November 5
Mexican narcos use TikTok and other social networks to traffic drugs to the United States
Mexican drug trafficking organizations exploit social media applications to commercialize fentanyl pills throughout the United States , including apocryphal pills of legal drugs, alerted the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA for its acronym in English).
During the presentation of the results of a police investigation of several weeks, the DEA noted that the Mexican drug trafficking groups had a direct link with 32 of the 76 cases of traffic through applications such as Snapchat, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
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“Mexican criminal drug networks are taking advantage of the perfect tool for the drug trafficking: social media applications that are available on all phones smart, ”said Anne Milgram, the head of the DEA in a brief conference this morning at the agency’s headquarters in Virginia.
According to calculations by the Pew Research Center, 100 % of Americans who say they have a cell phone have a smartphone capable of downloading different applications ranging from instant messaging services to mobile platforms to share videos.
“They are using these platforms to flood our country with fentanyl . The ease with which drug traffickers can operate on social media and other popular smartphone apps is fueling our nation’s unprecedented overdose epidemic, ”said Milgram.
According to the data cited by US authorities, Mexican drug trafficking organizations have increased the mass production of pills containing fentanyl – a high potency synthetic opioid – over the past ten years including passing them off as legal medicine pills.
At the same time as E the United States has experienced an opioid overdose epidemic, the The number of Americans who own a smartphone capable of downloading applications has grown from 35 percent in 2013 to 85 percent in 2021, opening avenues for the legal and illegal trade of products.
To publicize the campaign #OnePillCanKill (One Pill Can Kill) , the DEA released a guide with the various electronic symbols known as “emojis” that are used in applications to talk about illegal drugs ranging from symbols for cocaine to hallucinogenic mushrooms.
According to the agency, the operation that was carried out on 19 September to 14 in December throughout the United States managed to seize several l ibers of fentanyl pills as well as 8 million pills apocryphal of legal drugs such as Adderall, Xanax, Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin.
According to the author’s research US units 4 out of legal drugs have small amounts of fentanyl, enough that it is considered lethal; The DEA insisted that the fentanyl pills are produced in Mexico with Chinese precursors.
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