Mexican drug cartels outsource meth labs to Nigeria

Mexican specialists in manufacturing methamphetamine, often described as “cooks”, are increasingly found working alongside locals in laboratories in Europe and Africa. Meth production has become increasingly sophisticated. “They perfected it, to the point now it is the highest purity, the highest potency version of meth,” James Griego, who leads counter-narcotics operations for US-Africa Command (Africom), told the BBC.