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Asian, especially Chinese, money laundering organizations are now working for Mexican drug cartels

Edgar Veytia, who was Nayarit's top law enforcement official, admitted to conspiring with a drug cartel operating in his home state to smuggle thousands of kilograms of narcotics from Mexico into the United States for distribution in the New York area

If synthetic opioids displace heroin from the market of clandestine painkillers, Mexican drug trafficking organizations will compete for a declining market, causing violence to escalate in the country

Central America has become the outlet of Mexican organized crime for drug trafficking, money laundering, and human trafficking

Fentanyl is trafficked from Mexico to the U.S. using courier services, cars, buses, cargo transport, and airplanes

In just two years, the Jalisco cartel has gone from controlling no states in Mexico to now controlling 9, including the highly strategic Tijuana entry point, and the U.S.'s entire west coast.

Over a quarter million poppy plants were seized and destroyed during the raid

The growing opioid epidemic is not only affecting the U.S., it's now affecting Mexican cities that had never seen heroin addicts before.

Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid that is 10,000 times stronger than morphine and is currently sold in the U.S. as heroin

Mexican Attorney General Arely Gómez presented the joint strategy.