At the morning conference in the National Palace, the Secretary of the Navy of Mexico, Almirante José Rafael Ojeda Durán, informed that since the control of the ports was taken, they have closed the way to traffickers of illegal substances, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, who, whoHe said, they are looking for other access routes, not only the port of Manzanillo, Colima, or Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.

"They are already rising to Ensenada, Sonora, and they are even getting into Guaymas, but we are doing our work," he said, after the president cited the case of the confiscation of a cargo of fentanyl detected in the port of Guaymas, destined for destinyTo Manzanillo, where he would be sent to Barcelona, Spain.

Ojeda Durán added that in the coming months there will be a reform to the current law to include the most chemical substances used as precursors, which are used in the production of methamphetamines and fentanyl.

He added that each of the cases must investigate “step by step, with good control and judicialization, because if not, the aid, that we do not have many of public judges and ministries, because we have to close the circle well, because if I do not knowWe are going.There are many cases that even sorry for us to act from that manea, it seems that the enemy we have in the Judiciary, so we fear to close well (the cases), to reach the arrest. ”

Regarding the profits produced by chemical drugs, the Secretary of National Defense, General Luis Cresencio Sandoval González, reported that a kilo of fentanyl pills, which occur in two hours, have an average price of 5 thousand dollars in Mexico,And of 200 thousand dollars in the city of Los Angeles, California, that is, they generate a profit of 195 thousand dollars.

In contrast, he added, the production of marijuana, which requires an elaboration time of 5 to 6 months to produce a kilogram, has a price in our country of 50 dollars, and in Los Angeles of $ 160, which reports a profitof 110 dollars.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reiterated his call to young people notIt is "proportional to the damage it causes.With less elaboration time, more utility, more mortal, more damage. ”

Therefore, he reiterated his call to young people to say “not to this, this is poison, even if there are series where those who dedicate themselves to these activities live very well, with luxuries and others, in great residences.And they wear fine clothes, none of that, that's false, completely.This is suffering, mainly for those who consume and their families. ”

He also stressed that the decision to deliver the management of the ports to the Secretariat of the Navy, was due not to an intention to militarize the ports, but to have “professional, disciplined and honest personnel in the management of customs and ports, if not howWe were going to control this situation. ”