Posts Tagged ‘China’
Illicit Trade of Counterfeit Medicines in Mexico: Diversification by Cartels into Pharmaceuticals Expands the Lucrative Illicit Trade in the Americas.
WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, 7 MAY 2026 /ICAIE NEWS/ — ICAIE releases new May 2026 Infographic on illicit trade of counterfeit medicines in Mexico and the Americas by the drug cartels that have also been designated by the United States and Canada as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) for their…
Read MoreIllicit 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 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 John Cassara on How Bad Actors & Threat Networks use the Global Financial System to Launder Trillions of Dollars in Dirty Money
Learn more about “How do global FinSinners—from cartels to corrupt actors—use the financial system to wash trillions?” [see below, Parts 1 and 2, produced by First American] featuring ICAIE’s Vice President and Senior Advisor, John A. Cassara — and former CIA spy and Treasury agent. Cassara joins Sarah Frano, Host – First on Fraud, and…
Read MoreICAIE New “ILLICIT SHADOWS” Episode 1: Dispatch 1: Chemical Cartels: American Fallout – How Fentanyl Became a Weapon of War
What if the deadliest war in America isn’t being fought overseas, but right here on our streets? Across the country, a chemical weapon is claiming lives faster than any bullet. It’s not launched by missiles or drones. It’s packaged, shipped, and sold—one dose at a time. That weapon is fentanyl. The fentanyl trade has unleashed…
Read MoreFighting Illicit Trade and Organized Crime as a Critical Force Multiplier in Chile and the Southern Cone of the Americas: The Urgency of Public-Private Partnerships in Confronting Cross-Border Illicit Vectors
With the nations of Southern Cone of South America facing an unprecedented wave of violence and institutional crises driven by the explosive growth of illicit economies, co-organizers ICAIE, the Organization of American States (OAS), Department Against Transnational Organized Crime (DTOC), and the Camara Nacional de Comercio, Servicios y Turismo de Chile (CNC) led the convening…
Read MoreIntelligence Support to Gray Zone Activities & Irregular Warfare. An ICAIE Keynote: Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency
Keynote Address: Criminal Threat Convergence Must Be Elevated as a National Security Urgency David M. Luna, Executive Director, International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE) Intelligence Support to Gray Zone Activities & Irregular Warfare Symposium Ronald Reagan Center, Washington, DC 24 June 2025 I would like to thank the organizers for their warm invitation, including…
Read MoreCanada Transnational Organized Crime & Drug Trafficking: Canada’s Role in Expanding Global Illicit Economies
“Money laundering is the biggest illicit market and organized crime threat facing Canada.” — David M. Luna ICAIE Calls on Canada to Safeguard its National Security by Robustly Combating Cross-Border Illicit Economies, Money Laundering, and Strategic Corruption Find below new CGLR and ICAIE Infographic on Canada Transnational Organized Crime & Drug Trafficking: Canada’s Role in…
Read MoreExamining Policies to Counter China: U.S. efforts to Counter Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking and Related Money Laundering by the People’s Republic of China (Testimony of John A. Cassara)
ICAIE’s Board Member and Senior Advisor, John Cassara testified this morning before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee (HFSC), United States Congress hearing on “Examining Policies to Counter China” and one of focused thematic areas on “U.S. efforts to Counter Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking and Related Money Laundering by the People’s Republic of China”. ICAIE continues…
Read MoreAs U.S. Ramps Up Operations Against Cartels & Criminal Networks, Leveraging Threat Intelligence Critical to Disrupt Money Laundering and Illicit Trade
As I have underscored in numerous events and press interviews this week in Washington DC, as the United States ramps up more robust and targeted law enforcement, intelligence, and security operations against the Mexican cartels and transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) causing violent havoc across borders, and pursuant to numerous Presidential executive orders and designations of…
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