Mexican president says lack of hugs caused US fentanyl crisis

Mexico's president said Friday that U.S. families were to blame for the fentanyl overdose crisis because they don't hug their kids enough. The comment by President Andrés Manuel Là³pez Obrador caps a week of provocative statements from him about the crisis caused by the fentanyl, a synthetic opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels that has been blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per year in the United States. Là³pez Obrador said family values have 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 fentanyl. On Friday,…