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REUTERS/Edgard Garrido Mexico is gearing up for the largest election in its history, with over 21,000 offices at stake. One of the candidates is on the DEA s most-wanted list, but he has denied the allegations, calling them part of a dirty war against him. Mexico s political and criminal worlds have long overlapped, and violence tends to increase around elections. MEXICO - Mexico s midterm elections on June 6 will be the largest in the country s history, with voters choosing candidates for more than 21,000 offices. One of those candidates is already well known by some in the US: Rogelio Portillo Jaramillo, 41, who the DEA describes as an armed and dangerous fugitive. ....
A diplomatic row has frozen U.S.-Mexican efforts to target drug cartels. American officials say illicit fentanyl from labs in Mexico is driving a surge in overdose deaths. ....
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: A top official with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration tells NPR efforts to target drug cartels in Mexico have unraveled. The culprit is a diplomatic route that s frozen joint investigations and intelligence sharing between the two countries. This comes at a time when cartels are shipping more and more fentanyl into the U.S., driving a record spike in overdose deaths. NPR addiction correspondent Brian Mann reports. BRIAN MANN, BYLINE: Last year overdose deaths in the U.S. surged in a way no one s ever seen, killing more than 90,000 Americans. Matthew Donahue is head of operations for the DEA, which means he directs U.S. efforts to curb drug trafficking around the world. He says illegal labs run by cartels in Mexico are the major source of fentanyl and methamphetamines driving the epidemic. ....