Monday, May 3, 2021

U.S.-Mexico Efforts Targeting Drug Cartels Have Unraveled, Top DEA Official Tells NPR

Pedestrians walk past the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, California on October 16, 2020, a day after former Mexican Secretary of Defense Salvador Cienfuegos was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport at the request of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths.

(Image credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

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