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How Chinese criminal networks fuel illicit markets across the Americas
Brookings
2025.12.11
Over the last two decades, Chinese actors have expanded their illicit activities in Latin America and the Caribbean, often taking advantage of the expansion of Chinese legal businesses and trade with the region. The presence of Chinese criminal groups has also grown, sometimes exploiting Chinese diaspora communities in the region. Their activities span a wide spectrum of crimes ― from drug trafficking to money laundering, extortion, human smuggling, and illegal fishing, logging, mining, and wildlife trafficking. Chinese drug trafficking networks continue to be the principal suppliers of precursor chemicals for the production of methamphetamine and fentanyl to Mexican cartels that produce both drugs in Mexico. And Chinese money laundering networks have become the go-to money launderers for the Mexican cartels.