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Mexican President: U.S. Fentanyl Crisis Caused by ‘Lack of Love’

Experts say Mexican drug cartels traffic the opioid to the U.S., but he claims the real problem is not enough hugs.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that the fentanyl crisis in the United States is not caused by drug cartels in his country who traffic it across the border. No, López Obrador said the problem is that American parents don’t let their children live at home long enough. “There is a lot of disintegration of families, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces,” he said.

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