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Mexico announces record drug seizure one week after Trump threatens tariffs

bags of drugs in a vehicle
An image from the fentanyl seizure made by Mexican authorities on 3 December 2024. Photograph: Omar H Garcia Harfuch via Reuters

Mexican security forces have impounded more than a ton of fentanyl pills in what officials have called the biggest seizure of the synthetic opioid in the country’s history.

Soldiers and marines found the fentanyl at two properties in the northern state of Sinaloa, late on Tuesday – exactly a week after Donald Trump threatened to impose 25% tariffs on products from Canada and Mexico unless the two neighbouring countries cracked down on the flow of immigrants and drugs across their borders with the US.

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