Mexico Dispatch
New York Times reporters witnessed the dangerous fentanyl production process inside a secret lab in Culiacán run by Mexico’s most powerful criminal syndicate.
Mexico Dispatch
New York Times reporters witnessed the dangerous fentanyl production process inside a secret lab in Culiacán run by Mexico’s most powerful criminal syndicate.
Natalie Kitroeff and Paulina Villegas
Reporting from Culiacán in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, the stronghold of the Sinaloa cartel and a hub of fentanyl production.
We had just walked into the fentanyl lab when the cook poured a white powder into a stockpot full of liquid. He began mixing it with an immersion blender and fumes rose from the pot, filling the small kitchen.
But then, the cook jerked back.
“It really hit me,” he said, looking dazed. “I need to take a breather.”
The young man rushed out of the room.
In September, a war broke out within Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel. Fighting between the rival factions has terrorized the northwestern state of Sinaloa in the months since, leaving hundreds dead and causing a billion dollars in economic damage, business leaders say. The Mexican government responded by sending in a swarm of soldiers and making a slew of arrests.
NEW MEXICO
ARIZONA
TEXAS
MEXICO
Gulf of
California
SINALOA
Culiacán
Mazatlan
100 miles
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