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Carola Guerrero De León

Sinaloa Cartel Informant Says Trump's Fentanyl Crackdown Is Driving Some Traffickers Away from the Drug

A member of the Mexican Army stands guard after an armed attack in Culiacán, Sinaloa. (Credit: IVAN MEDINA/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump's tariff threats over drug trafficking and illegal immigration have unsettled economists and trade experts, but they have also alarmed those whose illicit enterprises face disruption—not from tariffs, but from intensified crackdowns: drug cartels.

Pablo (a pseudonym), a sicario or hitman for the Sinaloa Cartel, sat down for an interview with Canadian journalists from Le Journal de Montréal. The reporters, investigating the cartel's growing influence in Quebec, visited Culiacan—the epicenter of an ongoing turf war between the Chapitos and Los Mayos factions.

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