El Chapo made his millions trafficking cocaine and producing cannabis and heroin.
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Now Mexico has become one of the biggest producers of synthetic drugs in the world.
The most dangerous and powerful of those is a mixture of opium and the pain killer Fentanyl, which is a responsible for more than 30,000 deaths this year in the United States.
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