The Growing Ecosystems of Criminality Across South America in a Threat Convergence World. In Focus: Chile and the Southern Cone

“If Chile falls into the clutches of organized crime, South America begins to become a regional haven for a variety of malicious actors and threat networks.” David M. Luna, Executive Director, ICAIE Executive Summary Chile is strategically located in South America, bridging the trans-Pacific economies of Latin America and Asia, and serves as a bridge…

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Corruption and Money Laundering: The Risks of Chinese Financial Operations in Latin America

ICAIE VP and Senior Advisor John Cassara is quoted in a newly released article by Maria Zuppello, Dialogo Americas: Corruption and Money Laundering: The Risks of Chinese Financial Operations in Latin America: In a recent documentary, Dirty Money, Cartels, and Underground Banks, British daily Financial Times highlighted the exponential growth of Chinese money laundering operations worldwide, including in Latin…

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Fentanyl and criminal networks: the other threats to the Chancay megaport

ICAIE colleagues and senior advisors, Douglas Farah and Pablo Zeballos, interviewed for their pathfinding research on fentanyl and criminal networks: the other threats to the Chancay megaport as covered in the recent ICAIE Chancay (Peru) Report and extensive media coverage including this week in BioBioChile (see below). The inauguration of the new megaport of Chancay…

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ICAIE Calls on Canada to Implement a Threat Convergence Framework to Safeguard its National Security by Robustly Combating Cross-Border Illicit Economies, Money Laundering, and Strategic Corruption

Washington, DC / Vancouver / ICAIE News (Press Release) / November  28, 2024: Speaking at the Vancouver International Security Summit (VISS), 25-26 November 2024, David M. Luna, Executive Director, International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE), and a former U.S. diplomat and national security official, underscored the growing concerns shared by the United States related to…

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Preliminary ICAIE Report: UNDERSTANDING THE STRATEGIC CHALLENGES OF THE PORT OF CHANCAY (PERU) IN THE REGIONAL CONTEXT

Washington, DC / ICAIE News (Press Release) / November 22, 2024: The International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE) announces the publication of a new Preliminary Report, entitled,”Understanding The Strategic Challenges of the Port of Chancay (Peru) in the Region Context” in the Americas, co authored by ICAIE Advisors Douglas Farah, Pablo Zeballos, IBI Consultants. Executive…

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ICAIE Announces New Investigative Docuseries ‘Illicit Economies of the Shadowverse’ in Partnership With Sam Rad

Press Release [ICAIE News] [Newswire]• Sep 10, 2024 06:00 EDT The Illicit Economies of the Shadowverse are all around us, everywhere. They know no borders. And they encompass the intricate, often unseen networks of illicit trade and criminalized economies that silently shape our world. Related Media Press Release WASHINGTON, September 10, 2024 (Newswire.com) – The International Coalition Against…

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Illicit Trade Kills: Spotlighting the victims of illicit economies and greed crimes

Every year, criminalized trade and trafficking across illicit economies kill hundreds of thousands of people around the world. Illicit trade is not harmless nor a victimless crime.  Illicit economies and greed crimes have tremendous human, economic, societal and security costs and consequences to governments, markets, industries, communities, and innocent citizens. From small villages in Africa…

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ICAIE Keynote Address at The Pentagon: Getting Ahead of the Game in a new Multi-Polar World across Today’s Spectrum of Threats, Converging Ecosystems of Criminality, and Hybrid (Irregular) Warfare

On May 8, 2024 ICAIE Executive Director, David M. Luna gave a keynote address at The Pentagon as part of the POM review and conference of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on countering drug trafficking, illicit threat networks, and threat convergence vectors. The program was chaired by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for…

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Illicit Trade is Emerging as a Top 5 World Economy (GDP) in 2024: Yielding Criminals, Bad Actors, and Threat Networks Between $3-5 Trillion a Year in Illicit Wealth

Across today’s global threat landscapes, criminals, bad actors, illicit networks, and their corrupt enablers exploit vulnerabilities across borders, international trading system, supply chains, retail and e-commerce marketplaces for illicit enrichment, and to diversify, and expand their criminal portfolios and ecosystems of criminality. Lucrative criminal activities enable and fuel multitrillion-dollar illicit economies include the smuggling and…

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ICAIE Issues New Policy Brief on The Growing Harms of Cross-Border Illicit Trade Vectors and Threat Convergence to Canada’s National Security: Urgent Attention and Action are Needed 

WASHINGTON, DC, USA November 27, 2023: Today, the International Coalition Against Illicit Economies (ICAIE), a national security non-governmental organization based in Washington, DC, released a new report entitled, “The Growing Harms of Cross-Border Illicit Trade Vectors and Threat Convergence to Canada’s National Security“, co-authored by Calvin Chrustie and David M. Luna. The ICAIE policy brief and recommendations…

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