Archive for January 2026
Illicit Shadows – The Dark Forces Shaping the Global Criminal Underworld: Ep.1.4: The Cartels
The Mexican cartels are no longer just drug traffickers. They’re chemists, logisticians, CEOs of illicit empires, ruthless criminals, and transnational power brokers. The geopolitical realities across the Americas is that we have been witnessing a global asymmetrical warfare in which narco-terrorists and threat networks are employing violence and intimidation of communities to achieve political aims…
Read MoreIdentifying and Reporting Human Trafficking and related Money Laundering
In observing this January’s National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the United States, at a related earlier dialogue, someone had asked me if there were red flags or good practices on detecting money laundering concerning cross-border modern slavery to not only help to disrupt such an odious crime but to also help communities identify victims,…
Read MoreThe ICAIE Protocol: A Criminal-Threat Convergence Framework (≜ Kine-Dynamics)
The ICAIE Protocol (≜ Kine-Dynamics): In an emerging multi-polar world where threat networks do not respect rules, norms, breaking their cycle of corruptive influence and the economic power within ecosystems of criminality requires more anticipatory protocols and robust enforcement, especially those bad actors that are exploiting Boyd’s OODA loop — observe, orient, decide, and act…
Read MoreCan Leveraging a Criminal-Threat Convergence Framework Transform the Fight Against Illicit Economies in the Americas? Yes—The ICAIE Protocol.
In recent days, I have had the opportunity to share my views with a number of news media and policy communities on the current security situation in Venezuela and related diplomatic considerations including President Trump’s new National Security Strategy of the United States of America (November 2025), and how the United States aims to enforce…
Read MoreICAIE’s 2026 Outlook: Top 5 Illicit Threats
ICAIE’s 2026 Outlook: Top 5 Illicit Threats: 1. Unchecked Corruptive Influence2. Criminalized Trade Hubs and Markets3. Deadlier Fentanyl-Mixed Hybrids4. Digitized Transaction Laundering5. AI Sophisticated Deepfakes/Counterfeits Unchecked Corruptive Influence: Criminals and Threat Networks will continue to expand an ecosystem of criminality through blatant corrupt practices, targeted bribery, collusion, and fierce coercion to infiltrate governance structures, destabilize…
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