The New York Times is standing by its reporting from a fentanyl lab in Mexico after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum claimed the photographs weren’t credible.
The Times reporters visited a fentanyl cooking operation in the capital of the state of Sinaloa and included photographs of workers allegedly producing fentanyl in a lab.
In a statement, the New York Times said it is “completely confident” in its reporting.
“Our reporters spent months investigating the fentanyl industry, quoted former and current Mexican officials on the record about the production and testing of fentanyl in the country, and documented a fentanyl lab in Sinaloa,” the Times said in its statement.
Sheinbaum also criticized other stories from the same reporter, including a recent one about drug cartels recruiting Mexican chemistry students to make fentanyl.
Sheinbaum’s predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was also a regular critic of the New York Times’ work in Mexico. He faced a government inquiry after releasing the same reporter’s phone number in a press conference.
