• The U.S.-Mexico relationship is being strained by fentanyl smuggling, as politicians on either side of the Rio Grande scramble to respond to a drug trade that now kills over 70,000 U.S. nationals annually.
• The dangerous synthetic opioid has largely replaced other less-lethal recreational substances on the front burner of regional drug control efforts.
• The surge of fentanyl has been a boon to cartels such as Sinaloa and Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), who’ve discovered that the drug has few drawbacks from a commercial perspective.

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