The chapter provides an in-depth look at fentanyl trafficking at a busy US-Mexico border checkpoint, outlining the challenges faced in detecting and combating the potent synthetic opioid. It discusses the impact of fentanyl on American society, the difficulties in interception due to its characteristics, and the evolving strategies of drug cartels in smuggling the drug into the country.
A visit to a port of entry at America’s Mexican border reveals the difficulties in stopping the flood of fentanyl—a cheap, potent and ever more deadly drug. Javier Milei, Argentina’s president, is looking to blunt measures to escape an economic morass; our correspondent says he should instead look to Peru’s past (10:43). And remembering Robert Badinter, who killed off France’s guillotine (17:17).
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