Chinese Money Launderers Team Up With Mexican Drug Cartels
Anew class of synthetic drugs is killing Americans in record numbers. According to preliminary data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a record 93,331 people died from drug overdoses last year. That number represents a 30 percent increase from the year before, when 72,151 people died. Public health officials believe that the social isolation, trauma, and job losses caused by covid-19 lockdown measures contributed to this startling increase in overdose deaths by driving people to drugs as a form of escapism. Yet this record surge in overdose deaths is primarily due to the proliferation of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is more than 50 times more potent than heroin.
Over 60 percent of the people who overdosed on drugs last
year died while taking synthetic opioids like fentanyl, though overdose deaths
from cocaine and methamphetamines also rose. This fact is particularly
concerning as federal agents say fentanyl is quickly becoming a drug of choice
for Mexican cartels. It is highly profitable and easy to smuggle, so Mexican
cartel agents are ordering chemicals from China and synthesizing them into
fentanyl for shipment to the U.S. Border Patrol agents say they have seen a
4,000 percent increase in fentanyl seizures over the last three years.
“It’s the greatest drug scourge in American history—more
Americans killed annually than any time in history, and so, yeah, this is a
problem of epic proportions,” Ben Westhoff told Yahoo News.
Unlike heroin, which is made from the dried latex of poppy
flowers, fentanyl is made from synthetic chemicals manufactured in China. This
means people in multiple countries are working together to manufacture and
transport the drugs across the U.S. border.
Laboratories in Wuhan, China, once manufactured most of the
fentanyl consumed in America. But after U.S. President Donald Trump pressured
China to make the drug illegal, these labs began manufacturing the precursor
ingredients that were not illegal. The labs ship the precursors across the
Pacific Ocean to Mexican ports in Lázaro Cárdenas, Manzanillo and Ensenada.
There, the chemicals are smuggled into laboratories in the Mexico City region,
where cartels synthesize them into fentanyl.
Chinese money launderers also play a big role in the
fentanyl trade. Once Mexican cartel agents sell Chinese fentanyl in America,
they have to get the money back to Mexico. Normally, the money is deposited at
a business in the U.S. or Canada that serves as a front for an underground
Chinese bank. These money-laundering outfits make it look like the money came
from a legitimate business transaction before sending the funds to China. Once
the money is in the hands of Chinese nationals, they take their cut and wire
the rest to Mexico. The cartels then use the money to buy more fentanyl
precursors from Wuhan labs, and the cycle begins anew.
Federal officials believe Chinese money-launderer Gan
Xianbing moved up to $65 million in illicit drug proceeds for Mexican cartels
between 2016 and 2020—and he is just one money launderer. Chinese banks are
running a multi-billion-dollar business with Mexican cartels, and it literally
kills people.
This situation is an example of the natural consequences of
breaking God’s law. Many people view drug addiction as a moral crisis, but it
is also a national security crisis. If the American people had not abandoned
biblical family values, an entire generation would not have been driven into
hopelessness and hedonism. They would not have turned to drugs as a form of
escapism, and the alliance we see today between Chinese banks and Mexican
cartels would have never formed. But the American people have abandoned
biblical family values, so now billions of dollars are bleeding out of the
country to Communist bankers and Mexican criminals who want to tear America
apart.
America could mitigate some of the threats it is facing by
increasing border security, but ultimately drug addiction and overdose deaths
are not problems that can be permanently solved by the White House. They are
problems that must be solved in the 128 million households across America.
“Strong marriages build strong children,” Trumpet editor in
chief Gerald Flurry writes in No Freedom Without Law. “We need strong children
who are not vulnerable to drugs. Why do children want to take drugs and destroy
their minds? The mind is the only thing that really sets us apart from animals.
What is lacking in their lives that would make them want to do that to
themselves? Why even take a chance on something so destructive? Because their
wills are so weakened, they must have something to fill the void their parents
have left—in most cases. Of course, drugs don’t truly fill that void at
all—they only bring people into slavery of the worst possible kind. Drug
addiction destroys the will!”
Chinese bankers and Mexican cartels may be putting this
chemical weapon into the hands of Americans, but it is the American people who
are using it on themselves.
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