SAN DIEGO (Border Report) -- With its leadership arrested or on the run, the Sinaloa cartel's powerful influence and stronghold in Mexico and the United States has been diminishing, but it's certainly not out of the fentanyl business, according to an investigative report by the New York Times.

According to reporters Paulina Villegas and Maria Abi-Habib, cartel members are adapting by shifting to smaller loads, "devising creative methods and adjusting in real time to changing threats — showing how extraordinarily difficult it would be for any government to dismantle such an entrenched criminal organization."

The article provides in great detail how a mechanic-turned-drug-packer-by-night "sprayed six aluminum-wrapped packets with a liquid that smelled like chlorine, a compound that he said

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