China is the main driver behind fentanyl being smuggled into the United States by Mexican drug cartels, according to investigative journalist and author Peter Schweizer.
Schweizer, author of “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans,” discussed the crisis on “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/fentanyl-america-s-silent-epidemic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fentanyl: America’s Silent Epidemic</a>,” part of a DailyWire+ series by Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro on The Divided States of Biden. The author said the fentanyl trade that contributes to tens of thousands of American deaths every year begins in China. 
“They’re the senior partner. The drug cartels are really the junior partner in the fentanyl trade,” Schweizer told Shapiro, speaking of the Chinese regime led by President Xi Jinping.
Ninety percent of fentanyl precursor chemicals shipped from China to Mexico arrive via Mexico’s Port of Manzanillo. The port is run by a Chinese company, according to Schweizer. From the port, the chemicals are taken to a town in northern Mexico close to the U.S. border. About 2,000 Chinese workers work in cartel labs to craft the precursor chemicals into fentanyl and then the fentanyl into pills resembling common drugs such as Vicodin or Adderall.
“Now the drug cartels want to distribute their product in the United States. What do they do? They use Chinese apps. They use Chinese communications devices because they know that China will not share that information with U.S. law enforcement,” Schweizer said.
Money from the drug trade is then laundered through the Chinese financial system.
“The Mexican drug cartels now launder their money in Chinese state-owned banks, and, according to our government, they use Chinese students in the United States on education visas to do this,” Schweizer said.
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China will continue to fuel the fentanyl trade in the United States until U.S. political leadership decides to make China feel real consequences from participating in it, according to Schweizer.
“We need to start looking at punitive actions we can take to damage them. I’m generally a free trade guy, but do you want to have free trade with somebody who is poisoning your citizens in such a systematic way? I don’t think so,” he said. “We’ve got to get tough and we’ve got to make clear: you are going to suffer consequences and real damage until you stop doing this to our people.”

Fentanyl

China Is The ‘Senior Partner’ Directing The Fentanyl Crisis Killing Americans, Author Peter Schweizer Says

Cartels

China

Communist China

Crime

DailyWire+

Drug Cartels

Mexico

Peter Schweizer

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, claimed during an interview that aired on Sunday that he has ended corruption in Mexico and that the hundreds of political assassinations that are carried out every year in his country are not a threat to democracy.
AMLO made the claims during a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview about the crisis on the U.S. southern border and about the Mexican drug cartels.
The left-wing news program noted that AMLO takes a &#8220;bare knuckle brawls with the press&#8221; which it said was in &#8220;sharp contrast to the softer approach he&#8217;s taken with the drug cartels.&#8221;
AMLO claimed that his &#8220;hugs not bullets&#8221; method for dealing with the cartels has worked out &#8220;very well,&#8221; even though violence remains high and the cartels have grown in size.
When asked about the more than 30,000 murders that happen in Mexico every year, AMLO claimed that the Mexican government prosecuted &#8220;all&#8221; of the cases, even though only around 5% are actually prosecuted.
AMLO deflected blame for the role his country has played in the fentanyl crisis in the United States since nearly all of the illicit fentanyl that ends up killing Americans is manufactured by cartels in Mexico.
&#8220;Fentanyl is produced in the United States, in Canada, and in Mexico,&#8221; he claimed, ignoring the fact that the illicit fentanyl used in street drugs comes from his country. &#8220;And the chemical precursors come from Asia. You know why we don&#8217;t have the drug consumption that you have in the United States? Because we have customs, traditions, and we don&#8217;t have the problem of the disintegration of the family.&#8221;
He also falsely claimed that drug consumption in Mexico was not a problem.
When asked if he has &#8220;completely&#8221; eliminated &#8220;corruption&#8221; in Mexico, AMLO claimed: &#8220;Yes, basically, because corruption in Mexico started from the top down.&#8221;
&#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; noted that independent organizations have found there has been &#8220;no improvement in the corruption problems that have plagued Mexico for decades&#8221; under AMLO.
When asked about the 355 government officials and political candidates who were murdered last year in his country, he downplayed the matter, saying there were only &#8220;some specific instances.&#8221;
He said that the assassinations posed no threat to democracy.
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President Lopez Obrador Meets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

AMLO Claims He Ended Corruption In Mexico, Not Worried About Hundreds Of Political Assassinations

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Corruption

Democracy

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), whose district in southern <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Texas</a> includes hundreds of miles of the U.S. border, said during an interview this week that he believes that Mexican drug cartels are dialing back their human smuggling operations ahead of the 2024 presidential election in an effort to help President Joe Biden.
After months of record-breaking numbers being posted every month for illegal border crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border, January&#8217;s numbers subsided, falling to around 128,410, which the administration tried to tout as a major victory since it was down substantially from the month before when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-shatters-record-with-historic-number-of-illegal-aliens-encountered-in-december" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 302,000 illegal aliens</a> were encountered — the highest total in U.S. history.
However, it was still the highest January numbers ever recorded by the U.S. government, according to Gonzales.
&#8220;When you say border crossings are down, you&#8217;re talking about January being the most encounters ever,&#8221; Gonzales told Newsweek. &#8220;So, was it as bad as December? No, because that was [an] all-time, but it still was the worst January ever. So, that&#8217;s not good. It&#8217;s not good.&#8221;
&#8220;I do think the cartels are trying to carry the Biden administration a couple rounds,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Mexico has an election in June that no one&#8217;s really tracking. And, I suspect, for the next couple of months, everything will be cleaned up a little bit. I mean, over 7,000 people a day is still astronomical.&#8221;
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd addressed the issue of Mexican drug cartels paying attention to U.S. politics and adjusting their operations accordingly.
Judd was asked if he expects another major surge of illegal aliens storming into the U.S. ahead of November due to the increasing likelihood that former President Donald Trump could be elected again.
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&#8220;We do,&#8221; Judd said. &#8220;We saw this back when President Trump was up for re-election again, we saw a huge surge expecting that Biden was going to win, they wanted to get here before Biden took office knowing that he was going to put policies in place that were going to protect them.&#8221;
&#8220;We see the cartels, they are very intelligent in everything that they do,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;They know what the ebbs and flows of our politics are. They know how to generate money based on what our politics are. They also understand what the media is reporting.&#8221;

Tony Gonzales

Border Congressman: Mexican Drug Cartels Dialing It Back Before Election To Help Biden

2024 Election

Illegal Immigration

Joe Biden

Texas

U.S.

On Wednesday on “The Ben Shapiro Show,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro interviewed a leading expert on the southern border crisis, Anthony Rubin, one of the only journalists to have ever traveled and documented the entire mass migration route from Quito, Ecuador, to the U.S. border.
Asked about the route, Rubin, the founder of muckraker.com, stated, “The whole world is flying into Quito, Ecuador, because it&#8217;s got the easiest entry requirements basically of any country in the world. And then from there, they are crossing into Colombia illegally and trekking all the way up to the United States, country by country, crossing through the Darien Gap Jungle &#8230; making the way all the way up here aided by the United Nations and associated organizations along the way.”
“Who actually is trafficking people?” Shapiro asked. “At what point do drug cartels take over? Is it individuals? Is it groups?”
“A lot of people think when you when you&#8217;re talking to them about this that it&#8217;s like one continuous caravan all the way from Ecuador to the U.S. border,” Rubin answered. “It doesn&#8217;t really work like that. You&#8217;re with a group that&#8217;s continuously changing. You&#8217;ll be with one group entering the Darien Gap, then you&#8217;ll pop out, and then that group kind of splits apart as people travel at their own pace. And then another group will form at the northern part of Panama and then a group will continue to gather and you&#8217;ll get another caravan that&#8217;ll form at southern Mexico.”
“And so it&#8217;s always kind of shifting and evolving,” he continued. “But as far as the groups that bring you through, the groups that brought us through the Darien Gap, there are many routes that you can take through there. The route that we took was the route that is used by special interest aliens. That would be anybody that&#8217;s coming from countries that perhaps harbor terrorists, that have state-sponsored terrorism.”
“It could also be countries such as China, Russia, people that have a little bit more money,” he said.  “And so this route, what happens is you actually have to get smuggled into Panama by boats. You actually are already starting in Panamanian territory. And then you actually trek east to west through the jungle until you hit Highway 1. And so that&#8217;s the route that we took. Along that route, it&#8217;s indigenous tribes that are guiding you through the jungle. You could still die in there. These indigenous tribes are still armed. “
“In Mexico, we ran into at least three cartels; we were going to cross into the United States, right where Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX is in Boca Chica, Texas. We were walking up this public Mexican beach, just public coastline right there next to the Gulf of Mexico,  and we got picked up by this truck who told us we can&#8217;t go any further; it&#8217;s going to be trouble for you if you keep walking up there,” he recalled. “This truck starts driving us back down south to where we came from and pulled up next to another pickup truck that was filled with three armed men. These are serious guys carrying assault rifles &#8230; they just start screaming at us. They order us out of this one truck into their truck, and they drive us inland. And about 10 minutes inland, they pull us out of the truck, lay out all the stuff where they can find our drone and our camera, and now they&#8217;re thinking that perhaps we are spying on them. They don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on. So they start searching us for wires. They put us on our knees, they take hostage-type photos.”
“And during this time, another truck with four more armed men has pulled up with another seven armed men surrounding us,” he continued. “It&#8217;s not looking good. I&#8217;m you know, I&#8217;m trying to keep my cool. But certainly you start to realize that this situation is long . &#8230; And what happens is they tie up our hands, they throw a blindfold on myself.”
“Eventually the doors open up, the car stops and we&#8217;re in the middle of an empty field,” he said. “And I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s about to happen, but it doesn&#8217;t look good, right? But they lay out all of our electronics and they take out a crowbar and they smash everything to bits and pieces, and then they load it into another car and drop us off at the port of entry and basically say, never come back here again.”
“I&#8217;ve been down to the southern border myself; the drug cartels have total control over America&#8217;s southern border. I wonder if that was your experience as well,” Shapiro commented.
“Absolutely,” Rubin answered. “And you know, it&#8217;s not just the southern border or the northern border of Mexico. It&#8217;s throughout Mexico. The drug cartels are in control of that entire route. And what&#8217;s incredible is you have the United Nations and associated organizations that are handing out maps, ‘migration route maps’ to say ‘Here&#8217;s where you need to cross into Mexico. Here&#8217;s the route you&#8217;re going to take or the routes you can take through Mexico. Here&#8217;s the different crossing points of the United States.’ And all of those points are controlled by the cartel. It&#8217;s known that if you&#8217;re going to cross at any of those points, you&#8217;re going have to pay a human smuggler that is associated with the drug cartel &#8230; that&#8217;s the only way you&#8217;re actually going to be able to pass through. And so these, quote-unquote, ‘humanitarian organizations’ are really lining or helping to line the pockets of the cartel with millions, perhaps billions of dollars. That&#8217;s not an estimate that I made up. Those are legitimate estimates by people who have studied this and crunched the numbers.”
“For example, when we rode the Mexican train of death, that&#8217;s the train that runs across Mexico; it&#8217;s based like a freight train,” he stated. “And you will see illegal aliens riding on the top of it. The men who loaded us up onto the top of that train were serious cartel men in the middle of the night. these are men that are entirely masked up. They&#8217;re wearing body armor. They actually had swords tucked behind their body armor &#8230; I wasn&#8217;t aware what the swords were for at first. And then later I find out that&#8217;s because if they need to kill somebody, they don&#8217;t want to make any noise. That&#8217;s why they have the sword. And of course, they&#8217;re carrying assault rifles or shotguns. And these are the men that are loading you up onto the train of death in the middle of the night. So there&#8217;s nothing humanitarian about it. And yet all of Mexico, at least the parts where this route is going through, it&#8217;s all controlled by the cartel.”

Drug Cartels Turn Oil Pipeline Routes Into Highways Of Death

Southern Border Expert Tells Ben Shapiro Humanitarian Organizations ‘Helping To Line The Pockets’ Of Drug Cartels

Ben Shapiro

Southern Border

Right now, the United States is experiencing the biggest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/border-crisis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">border crisis</a> in American history — and the front pages of the biggest newspapers in the United States aren’t even covering it.
The top headlines over at the Washington Post are all about a U.N. court ordering Israel around and an Alabama man being put to death with nitrogen gas. They say nothing about the giant wave of illegal immigration on a border that is now spurring a constitutional showdown between the state of Texas, along with 24 other states, against the federal government.
It’s the same at the New York Times. Nothing at the top of the homepage — nothing about what is going on at the border.
Why? Because when it comes to the Democratic Party and their lackeys in the press, they must cover up what is going on at the southern border. Because if Americans understand what&#8217;s going on at the southern border, Joe Biden will not be reelected.
It is that simple.
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About a week and a half ago, a letter went out from ten retired FBI directors and experts in counter-intelligence. They pointed out — and they were absolutely correct — that this is a massive national security threat. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-country-has-been-invaded-former-fbi-officials-issue-grave-warning-on-bidens-open-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">They wrote</a>:
<blockquote>As former senior executives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with deep experience combating dangers to the nation, we write to express our concern about a current, specific threat that may be one of the most pernicious ever to menace the United States. 
The danger arises from the nature of the threat itself. Wars and espionage bombings and riots are sadly familiar delivery systems of instability, intimidation, and insecurity. The country has faced these and more throughout its history and is held together, though not without struggle. 
The threat we call out today is new and unfamiliar. In its modern history, the U.S. has never suffered an invasion of the homeland and, yet, one is unfolding right now. Military age men from across the globe, many from regions or countries not friendly to the United States, are landing in waves on our soil by the thousands. …
It would be difficult to overstate the danger represented by the presence inside our borders of what is a comparatively multi-division army of single young adult males from hostile nations and regions whose background, intent, or allegiance is completely unknown. …
In 2021, the demographics of those crossing the porous southern border started to shift. Young men from around the world traveling alone and holding questionable motivations dramatically increased in numbers to become the most common profile of those breaching the nation&#8217;s borders.</blockquote>
This happens to be true. We were told by Border Patrol agents, who shall remain nameless, that the number of terrorists who are being captured at the border is completely unspecified. They have no idea. Even when somebody is caught on the terror watch list, that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean the person is a terrorist because the terror watch list is incredibly vague.  
There is abundant camera coverage of the entire southern border which is very comprehensive. But there must be actual agents who are watching 24-hours a day to see what they can see.
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Now, many of those people don&#8217;t get captured. They are filmed on cameras, and they escape into the interior. We have no idea who they are. Last year, that number was at least 600,000 — and that is just last year. What about the unknown gotaways? How the hell should CBP know? They have no idea. And maybe they&#8217;ll give some estimates, but they actually have no idea.
Here&#8217;s the key point: What we do know is that if those people wanted to just be released in the United States, and wanted the U.S. government to know who they were and what they were about, or if they just wanted to come here and work illegally and then hope for amnesty, get married, apply for a green card, and be on welfare — then the easiest way to do that would be to throw up their hands and surrender to CBP.
The people who are crossing as unknown gotaways are people who should not be in the country under any circumstances — not just because they&#8217;re illegal immigrants, but because they probably have criminal records or drug connections at a minimum. Many of them probably have terror connections as well because that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re avoiding CBP.
By the way, the drug cartels know this. In some of the most shocking footage from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-divided-states-of-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the documentary</a> we just put out at Daily Wire, CBP told us that if the drug cartels are being chased by CBP and are traveling with children, they will discard the children. We&#8217;re talking about babies. They discard the children, hoping that CBP will go and care for the children — as they are morally duty bound to do — so the adults can evade arrest. They will take human babies and throw them to the side of the road in an attempt to distract CBP, so they can escape into the interior of the country. 
The drug cartels have no regard for human life. None. Again, this is being facilitated by the federal government. The letter from the retired FBI directors and experts in counter intelligence stated, “Those of us who have fought terrorism know that, historically, successful terror attacks invite mimicry … having a large number of young males now within our borders who could begin attacking gatherings of unarmed citizens, in imitation of 10/7 and at the behest of a foreign terror group, must be considered a distinct possibility.”
That makes perfect sense.
What we are watching right now is absolutely unprecedented on our southern border.
And the media have nothing to say about it.
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Flood Of Migrants Overwhelms Arizona Border Crossings

The Biggest Border Crisis In American History And The Media Goes Silent

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Border

Border Crisis

Opinion

Readers Pass

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/oregon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oregon</a> Democrats are moving to undo part of the state&#8217;s drug decriminalization law that has plummeted in popularity since it went into effect.
Democrats on the state legislature&#8217;s addiction committee announced Tuesday that they will introduce a new bill to bring back misdemeanor criminal penalties for possessing small amounts of drugs.
In 2020, Oregon voters approved Measure 110, which scrapped criminal charges for possessing small amounts of any drug, even hard drugs like fentanyl.
Instead, offenders are hit with a maximum fine of $100 that is rarely enforced. Drug users can also get their fine dismissed if they call a hotline to get an addiction screening, but in the law&#8217;s first year, only 1% of people who received tickets for drug possession called the hotline, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-health/ap-oregons-first-in-the-nation-drug-decriminalization-law-faces-growing-pushback-amid-fentanyl-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to state auditors.
About 58% of Oregon voters approved the drug decriminalization law, the first of its kind in the country.
In the years since Measure 110 took effect, however, the law has become increasingly unpopular as residents deal with public drug use in their daily lives.
Two years later, more than 6 in 10 voters said they thought decriminalization has made drug addiction, homelessness, and crime worse in Oregon, according to a May <a href="https://www.dhmresearch.com/oregon-voters-support-bringing-back-criminal-penalties-for-drug-possession/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> from DMH Research. A combined 63% said they “strongly” supported or would be “somewhat” interested in once again criminalizing hard drugs.
Meanwhile, fatal drug overdoses in Oregon have spiked.
Oregon had more than 1,700 drug overdose deaths during the year that ended in August, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number is a 38% increase from the more than 1,200 deaths the state saw in the previous 12 months.
The new bill Democrats plan to introduce would make using drugs in certain public places like parks a low-level misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail or a $1,250 fine or both. However, drug users can avoid charges if they complete a behavioral health screening and meet with a caseworker.
The bill would <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/open-air-drug-use-overdoses-push-democrats-introduce-overhaul-first-nation-decriminalization-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">also</a> let police confiscate a user&#8217;s drugs and establish stronger sentences for dealing drugs in certain places such as near parks or homeless shelters. It would also increase access to treatment, housing, and insurance.
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“It’s the compromise path, but also the best policy that we can come up with to make sure that we are continuing to keep communities safe and save lives,” <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-u-s-news/ap-with-oregon-facing-rampant-public-drug-use-lawmakers-backpedal-on-pioneering-decriminalization-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> state Senator Kate Lieber (D), who co-chairs the addiction committee and will introduce the new bill.
As recently as November, Lieber was <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-health/ap-oregons-first-in-the-nation-drug-decriminalization-law-faces-growing-pushback-amid-fentanyl-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> it would be a &#8220;mistake&#8221; to overturn Measure 110, saying such a move would &#8220;make us go backwards.&#8221;
In September, the Portland City Council passed a ban on using hard drugs on public property, a sign of how fed up the city is with rampant open-air drug use polluting its streets.
However, that ordinance cannot go into effect unless the state reverses its decriminalization law.

Handcuffs on wrist, drug syringe

Oregon Democrats Move To Undo Part Of Unpopular Drug Decriminalization Law

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ecuador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ecuador&#8217;s</a> military on Thursday descended on a massive prison after several alarming events, including the escape of a gang boss and the alleged assassination of a prosecutor.
Hundred of Ecuadoran soldiers and police marched into the major prison complex in Guayaquil, video footage released by Ecuador&#8217;s military <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSYNjEZNvIs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>. Photos <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12982509/Ecuadors-war-gangs-hundreds-soldiers-swarm-prison.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> prisoners kneeling or lying on the floor of the prison in their underwear with their hands tied. Dozens of military vehicles arrived at the prison as well.
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Last week, gang leader Adolfo Macías Villamar, known as &#8220;Fito,&#8221; escaped from the same prison complex. On January 7, police found his cell empty when they came to move him to a higher security wing within the prison.
Fito is the leader of Los Choneros, one of the most dangerous gangs in Ecuador, which works with cartels in Mexico and is involved in drug trafficking to the U.S.
The news of the crime boss&#8217; escape caused riots in at least six jails that in some cases involved prison guards held hostage. Explosives were also set off in some cities.
The situation prompted a swift government crackdown, which led to retaliation from Ecuador&#8217;s powerful drug cartels.
The day after Fito&#8217;s escape on January 8, Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68022873" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> a state of emergency amid the chaos.
A day later on January 9, a group of armed criminals stormed a local television station, TC Television, while it was broadcasting live.
The attackers fired guns and forced staff to lie on the ground.
One woman <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12982509/Ecuadors-war-gangs-hundreds-soldiers-swarm-prison.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">could</a> be heard saying, &#8220;Don&#8217;t shoot, please don&#8217;t shoot.&#8221;
After about 30 minutes, police came into the television studio and arrested 13 people, including many teenagers.
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Then on Wednesday, the prosecutor who was leading the investigation into the television network attack was assassinated in Guayaquil, according to Ecuador’s Attorney General Diana Salazar.
Since then, police have arrested two men allegedly connected to the prosecutor&#8217;s assassination, according to General Commander of the National Police, Cesar Zapata.
“I am going to be emphatic, the organized criminal groups, criminals, terrorists will not stop our commitment to the Ecuadorian society, we will continue with more strength and commitment,” Salazar <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/world/ecuador-prosecutor-cesar-suarez-assassinated-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The Guayaquil prison, which is near Ecuador&#8217;s biggest port and export hub, has become the locus of the clash between the government and organized crime.
Ecuador has become the globe&#8217;s biggest cocaine distributor, and the drug cartels move huge amounts of that cocaine through the Guayaquil port. Much of the cocaine originally comes from neighboring countries Colombia and Peru.

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Gunmen took over an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ecuador" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ecuadorian</a> television station during a live broadcast on Tuesday as the country descended into further chaos and a state of armed conflict was declared.
The incident comes after Adolfo Macías, a convicted leader of one of the country&#8217;s most powerful gangs, escaped from prison on Monday, sending shockwaves throughout the country.
During their storming of public TC Televisión station, gunshots were heard and alleged explosives were shown by members of the Los Tiguerones and Los Lobos gangs, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/09/ecuadoran-president-declares-armed-conflict-gunmen-storm-tv-studio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Law enforcement confirmed the arrests of at least 13 alleged gang members involved in the incident.
The incident comes after multiple attacks have happened across the country over the last day, &#8220;including about 30 car explosions and the kidnapping of seven police officers,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Riots have also broken out at several prisons, with reports that dozens of guards have been held by armed men.&#8221;
Intelligence officials believe the attacks were coordinated and orchestrated by Los Lobos as a potential warning to government leaders against transferring gang leaders to maximum-security prisons.
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The increased chaos in the country comes as it continues to crack down on government officials who have been arrested for allegedly working to support drug traffickers.
The report said that the violence has increased sharply in recent years because the country has become &#8220;a critical cocaine transit point and gangs compete for control of drug routes and prisons.&#8221;
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) responded to the images of violence unfolding on the streets of Ecuador by recounting his experience living in the country.
&#8220;Right now Ecuador is experiencing an all-out cartel takeover. They’re executing hostages, taking over prisons, and stormed a news station on live TV,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I used to live in Ecuador. My dad took an oil job there for a year and half while I was in middle school. Nothing like this was happening. Over the past 20 years cartels and drug traffickers have become far too powerful and more dangerous than ever.&#8221;

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The five Republican presidential candidates who attended Wednesday night&#8217;s third GOP primary debate in Miami outlined their plans to stop the millions of people <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/illegal-immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegally</a> coming into the U.S. and the flow of fentanyl that is killing tens of thousands of Americans per year.
Each of the candidates was asked about the topic during the second half of the debate after co-moderator Hugh Hewitt highlighted the problems, including illegal immigration, terrorists coming across the border, and the flow of drugs onto U.S. streets.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said that the southern border needed to be closed and that it would take approximately $15 billion to secure it through various means.
&#8220;For $10 billion, we could close our southern border,&#8221; he said. &#8220;For an additional $5 billion, we could use the currently available military technology to surveil our southern border to stop fentanyl from crossing our border. I’ve already led on legislation that would sanction the Mexican cartels. If you remember the path, the precursors come from China, then they are manufactured in Mexican labs, and then the Mexican cartels bring them across our border. By sanctioning their accounts and eliminating their cash, we starve them of what they need.&#8221;
Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said that the U.S. needed to &#8220;beef up what our law enforcement has in terms of technology&#8221; at the ports of entry into the U.S. to detect people smuggling in drugs.
&#8220;On day one, I would sign an executive order that would send the National Guard to partner with Customs and Border Patrol, both at ports of entry and at the open ports of our border,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Customs and Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed. There’s 200,000 encounters a month over the last 11 months. We simply do not have the man and woman power at the border to be able to deal with it. And so dealing with both law enforcement, and you’re right, we have done this, we can do this, but we got to give them the tools to do it and technology is one of the biggest tools that we don’t have enough of at the ports of entry.&#8221;
He said that he would also focus on lowering the demand for drugs in the U.S. by getting people mental health treatment and treating drug addiction as a disease.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said that he will declare a national emergency on his first day in office and he will send the U.S. Military to the southern border.
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&#8220;I’m going to stop the invasion cold. I am going to deport people who came illegally, and I’m even going to build the border wall and have Mexico pay for it like Donald Trump promised,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We’re going to impose fees on the remittances that foreign workers send to foreign countries. We’ll raise billions of dollars, I’ll build a wall. But we are going to designate the cartels to be Foreign Terrorist Organizations or something similar to that, and we’re going to authorize the use of deadly force. We’re going to have maritime operations to interdict precursor chemicals going into Mexico. But I’ll tell you this, if someone in the drug cartels is sneaking fentanyl across the border when I’m president, that’s going to be the last thing they do. We’re going to shoot them stone cold dead.&#8221;
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley also highlighted the devastation that the fentanyl crisis has caused in the U.S. and said that she would end trade relations with China until it stops.
&#8220;The second thing is we’ll send special operations in to take out the cartels,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We need to go to where they’re distributing it, where the supply centers are, and take them out. We’ll put 25,000 more Border Patrol and ICE agents on the ground and let them do their job. We will defund sanctuary cities. We will go back to the Remain in Mexico policy so that everybody stays in Mexico and they never get here in the first place.&#8221;
She also added that she believes the U.S. needed to focus more on treating people with mental health and addiction problems.
Vivek Ramaswamy said that he agreed with how DeSantis talked about the issue and that the issue was not even about people overdosing, it was about them being poisoned, which DeSantis said that he agreed with.
&#8220;If you put that fentanyl in a Big Mac, we would not call that an overdose. You’d call it what it is. It’s closer to bio-terrorism,&#8221; he said, adding that the U.S. needed to build a wall on the southern and northern border.
He also talked about the importance of destroying tunnels that cartels use to smuggle people and drugs into the U.S.
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The FBI seized more than 220 pounds of drugs in Massachusetts last week in a massive drug bust — believed to be the most drugs ever found in a single spot in New England.
The FBI task force found 10 million doses of drugs with a street value of $8 million during a search on November 1 in Lynn just north of Boston, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/over-220-pounds-suspected-controlled-substances-seized-including-pills-shaped-resemble-heart#:~:text=The%20seizure%20included%20nine%20kilograms,be%20upwards%20of%20%248%20million." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release Monday. The stash included eight million doses of fentanyl and methamphetamine laced pills and powder.
Among the drugs were 20 pounds of pink, heart-shaped, fentanyl-laced pills that were &#8220;pressed to look like candy,&#8221; the Justice Department said.
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Authorities also found brown rock and powder-like substances, which tested positive for cocaine and other drugs, and counterfeit Adderall pills believed to contain methamphetamines.
Three men were arrested in connection with allegedly running the &#8220;large-scale drug trafficking organization,&#8221; authorities said.
A 25-year-old man, Emilio Garcia, also known as &#8220;6&#8221; and a 33-year-old man, Sebastien Bejin, also known as Bash, were each charged with two counts, including possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute. A third 40-year-old man, Deiby Felix, was charged with just one count of possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute.
If convicted, the men face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each charge.
They are scheduled to appear in court on November 13.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the seizure &#8220;saved lives in communities throughout Massachusetts.&#8221;
“Not only was this seizure one of the largest in the history of Massachusetts, but some of the pills were created to look like candy, potentially presenting an enormous risk to children,&#8221; Wray said.
The number of doses is greater than the number of people living in Massachusetts, said Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy for the District of Massachusetts.
“The fact that we now are seeing fentanyl-laced pills pressed to resemble candy only underscores the urgency of this fentanyl crisis,” Levy said.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is cheap to make and easily transported, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-sees-biggest-fentanyl-bust-in-sheriffs-office-history">is about</a> 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Because it is often cut with other drugs, users may often be unaware that they are consuming the powerful substance, which can be deadly even in small doses.
As little as two milligrams of fentanyl weighing the same as a few grains of salt can cause a fatal overdose, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-sees-biggest-fentanyl-bust-in-sheriffs-office-history">according</a> to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Fentanyl has been on the rise in the U.S. for years. In a public safety alert, the DEA <a href="https://www.dea.gov/alert/dea-laboratory-testing-reveals-6-out-10-fentanyl-laced-fake-prescription-pills-now-contain#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20highly%20addictive,considered%20a%20potentially%20deadly%20dose." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that six out of ten fentanyl pills the agency tests contain a potentially lethal dose.
In 2022, more than two-thirds of the 107,081 drug overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids, mostly illegal fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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The school district serving the growing population of Colony Ridge, a sprawling development north of Houston that has become a magnet for illegal aliens, is facing a sudden surge in drug overdoses.
A whopping <a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/drug-overdoes-at-cleveland-isd-high-school-continue-to-rise">15 drug-related incidents</a> have happened at Cleveland Independent School District (CISD) since the start of the school year on <a href="https://www.clevelandisd.org/district-academic-calendar">August 8th</a>, with the district suspecting that fentanyl-laced Percocet pills are to blame.
“In recent weeks, there have been 4 reported cases of drug overdose in our district, specifically related to Percocet pills that may have been laced with fentanyl,” a public service <a href="https://www.clevelandisd.org/">announcement</a> from CISD reads. “We urge all residents, especially those who use or come in contact with prescription medications, to exercise extreme caution.”
But while there have been four <a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/drug-overdoes-at-cleveland-isd-high-school-continue-to-rise">reported</a> overdose cases where the student required Narcan this year, there were also eight incidents that required an ambulance to be called to CISD. The figures mark a drastic surge in overdoses, with <a href="https://abc13.com/cleveland-isd-texas-school-overdoses-fentanyl-crisis-how-many/13840114/">only one</a> overdose being recorded for all of last year.
The district now says it is working closely with police and held town halls this month where the police chief briefed the community on the dangers of fentanyl and passed out Narcan, a drug used to counteract overdoses.
CISD sits in Liberty County, a rapidly growing area that can attribute much of its surge in population to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">Colony Ridge</a>, a development that could eventually house <a href="https://www.danpatrick.org/the-fastest-growing-community-in-texas/">200,000 people</a> and uses a financing method that allows illegal immigrants to buy land in the United States.
The district has exploded alongside the growth of the development, with CISD enrolling nearly 1,100 students in just two weeks over the summer and almost <a href="https://abc13.com/parents-concerned-in-cleveland-high-school-crowded-students-safety-isd/13696446/#:~:text=The%20district%20has%20experienced%20explosive,hold%20up%20to%203%2C968%20people.">doubling in enrollment</a> since 2018. Many of the new students do not speak English, compelling the district to offer <a href="https://bluebonnetnews.com/2023/08/07/cleveland-isd-kicking-off-new-school-year-with-more-than-12k-students/">$7,000 annual stipends</a> to bilingual teachers.
Law enforcement officials have <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Rarely-Quoted-Sheriffs-Mexican-Cartels-Do-Operate-and-Around-Controversial-Texas-Illegal">warned</a> that drug cartels are likely to be active in Colony Ridge and, even worse, that they do not have sufficient resources to patrol the development.
Liberty County Sheriff Rader <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/9808747/liberty-county-sheriff-bobby-rader-calls">warned</a> on the Michael Berry Show that his office does not have the resources to handle the criminal presence in the area, noting, “We’ve heard rumors that the cartel is buying up houses.”
Rader can’t be sure what the proportion of patrol officers to residents is because no one is certain exactly how many people live at Colony Ridge, just that it is growing rapidly. He posited that, at best, there may be one officer for every 16,700 residents, but the ratio could be as dismal as one officer for every 25,000 residents.
Robert Freyer, the First Assistant District Attorney of neighboring San Jacinto County, told The Daily Wire that law enforcement believes “cartels are importing liquid meth into those houses” and “turning it into crystal there.”
The county’s sheriff, Greg Capers, also warned that the Los Zetas, Gulf, Jalisco New Generation, and the Sinaloa cartels are active in the region, the latter two of which the Drug Enforcement Agency has noted as “likely the <a href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf">primary trafficking groups</a> responsible for smuggling fentanyl into the United States from Mexico.”
Governor Greg Abbott has responded to the reports of crime and cartel activity in Colony Ridge by placing legislation addressing the development on the schedule for the <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-third-special-session-agenda">special legislative session</a>, as well as by sending Texas Department of Public Safety troopers into the area.

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One of the most powerful drug cartels in history that is responsible for the majority of fentanyl coming into the United States has reportedly banned the production and sale of the illicit drug amid increased political pressure.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexican-sinaloa-cartels-message-to-members-stop-making-fentanyl-or-die-b96d3e09">reported</a> that cartel operatives that the newspaper interviewed said the Sinaloa Cartel was &#8220;prohibiting the production and trafficking of the illegal opioid in its territory after coming under increasing pressure from U.S. law enforcement.&#8221;
The alleged order came from the sons of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, who is in a supermax prison in Colorado.
The cartel hopes to &#8220;evade pressure from U.S. law enforcement,&#8221; the newspaper reported, which comes as deaths from the drug have skyrocketed over the last decade.
One U.S. official that the newspaper spoke to described the move as a public relations campaign, saying the cartel would not stop producing fentanyl.
“In the aggregate it won’t mean anything” the official said. “They think if they do this, they won’t take as much heat.”
The report said the Biden administration was pressuring the Mexican government — which is often aligned with the cartels — to do more to dismantle the operations, especially the Sinaloa Cartel.
Various cartel operatives that the Journal spoke to said that they had ceased production of fentanyl because the cartel had started killing anyone still involved in producing or trafficking the drug.
The organization hung banners in various areas throughout the state of Sinaloa warning cartel members that if they were involved with fentanyl, they would be killed. Similar banners were allegedly found in other Mexican states like Tijuana and Sonora.
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Other operatives said that the cartel was hoping by leaving the fentanyl business that U.S. authorities would focus their resources on going after the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Some of the cartel members interviewed by the Journal said they quit because they could either no longer get the precursor chemicals needed to make the drug, or because they found other cartel members who had been shot to death and who had fentanyl pills thrown all over them. The paper noted that about a dozen people believed to be involved with the cartels have been kidnapped or gone missing over the last two weeks—all believed to be involved with fentanyl production.
“We believe these kidnappings and disappearances are linked to the ban on fentanyl because their relatives haven’t presented formal complaints to authorities,” he said. “These people are very scared.”
Even if the ban is real, U.S. officials said the supply of fentanyl was so great that it would likely be months before officials see a reduction of the drug on U.S. streets. The cartel will likely increase exports of cocaine, meth, and heroin to compensate for any reduced cash flow from the ban on fentanyl sales.

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