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Latin American illicit drug business
The growth of fentanyl money laundering
According to Felbab-Brown’s testimony small and middle level actors in China’s chemical and pharmaceutical industries are at the forefront of supplying Mexico’s criminal cartels with fentanyl precursors. China’s own criminal groups such as the triads are less directly involved. However, she and other analysts point to the emergence of a sophisticated money-laundering network around the fentanyl business, including product barter.
- Introduction
- The fentanyl epidemic
- Fentanyl and the US-China-Mexico triangle
- The growth of fentanyl money laundering
- Problem: Weak Mexico-US cooperation
- Fentanyl and post-truth politics
- Bomb Mexico?
- Biden’s dilemma
- Colombia hopes for cocaine anti-narcotics win
- Watch the pharmacists
- Expect slow change in the drug business