Posted on 05/18/2023 8:53:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Advanced money-laundering techniques and clandestine precursor imports combine to stoke the opioid crisis – can the US stem the flow?
For a few days in April, news sites across Latin America were running Instagram photos of a glamorous blond woman enjoying trips around the world.
There were pictures of Ana Gabriela Rubio Zea, 32, posing in a blue dress and Yves Saint Laurent handbag outside San Miguel de Allende, ice skating in a miniskirt in Central Park and laughing in the Forbidden City.
The social media images were then followed by more recent photos: Rubio, in a sweatshirt and jeans, flanked by officers from the national civil police of Guatemala, where she was arrested on 17 March for her alleged role in sourcing fentanyl precursor chemicals from China for the Sinaloa cartel.
According to the arresting agency and a federal indictment released on 14 April, for almost 10 years Rubio arranged illegal imports of controlled drug-making substances, sometimes hiding them in food containers and leveraging corruption to deliver the chemicals to the cartel.
“We are the biggest in Mexico so we can purchase a lot,” the indictment quotes Rubio telling Wu Yonghao, a sales representative for the chemical supplier Wuhan Shuokang Biological Technology Co Ltd, in an encrypted message before her arrest.
The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, called the Mexico-based Sinaloa cartel “the largest, most violent, and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world” in a statement accompanying the sweeping indictments covering cartel bosses, enforcers and suppliers such as Rubio and Wu.
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So, how is it getting into Mexico unless it is on ships? There are no direct flights from China to Mexico.
The easy solution is to not do drugs.
Yes, I realize that that does not stop someone from trying to poison others, but if there weren’t a market for it, it would not be worth it to bring the drugs in.
In a adult world, the US Navy would be off the coast of Mexico interdicting shipments.
But señor. Mehico is our good neighbor. Our friend. They send all their young men to the U.S. to do all the construction jobs and start gangs. And they buy a lot of beer to help Bidenskyyy’s economy.
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And yet Biden and Mayorkas won’t build the wall. This is collaboration with the drug cartels “By Deliberate Omission”.
Biden and party approved.
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