Mexican president blames US fentanyl crisis on ‘lack of hugs’ among families


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Mexico’s president has said that US families were to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don’t hug their kids enough. The comment by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador caps a week of provocative statements from him about the crisis caused by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels that has been blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per year in the United States. López Obrador, commonly known as Amlo, said family values had broken down in the United States, because parents don’t let their children live at home long enough. He has also denied that Mexico produces...