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How Two Mexican Drug Cartels Came to Dominate America’s Fentanyl Supply

CULIACÁN, Mexico—At a half-built home in a barrio, a longtime Sinaloa cartel worker used a shovel to combine chemical compounds in a simmering oil barrel.

His concoction was an illegal form of fentanyl, which Mexican prison organizations are churning out at excessive quantity in laboratories and smuggling throughout the border. In a six-day workweek, the prepare dinner mentioned, he could make sufficient fentanyl for lots of of hundreds of doses.

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