### [2025-03-5](/feed/2025/03/5/index.md)

##### Mexican drug war
# Mexican law enforcement announces they have seized 275,000 pills of fentanyl stored in boxes of nopales in Sonora. A man is arrested in connection to the seizure. 




### Sources:

1. [AP](https://apnews.com/article/mexico-cactus-fentanyl-seizure-trump-567088e6ccdee38695e99c9524561e83)

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