While Mexico’s Pacific ports, including Manzanillo, offer the most direct sea route for cargo coming from Asia, traffickers increasingly are routing Chinese fentanyl precursors through Europe and across the Atlantic Ocean to Mexico, three sources said.
The State Department official said that training from the program has helped Mexican authorities nab several shipments of precursor chemicals, including nearly 90 tons of meth ingredients in July 2024, and another 25 tons of meth chemicals in December.
The stalling of the UN cargo program in Mexico is part of a broader pause on US-funded anti-narcotics efforts in Mexico as a result of the global freeze of foreign aid that Trump ordered on January 20.
Enrique Roig, a former senior State Department official, said the halting of funding to anti-narcotics programs in Mexico could undermine the Trump administration’s efforts to address America’s drug overdose crisis.
A US-backed UN program designed to halt the flow of fentanyl precursor chemicals into Mexico has been stalled by President Trump's foreign aid freeze, sources reveal.
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