{"id":94947,"date":"2022-05-24T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T04:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/?post_type=newss&#038;p=94947"},"modified":"2022-05-24T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T04:55:20","slug":"mexican-cartels-are-taking-control-of-the-fishing-and-logging-industry-crime-expert","status":"publish","type":"newss","link":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/newss\/mexican-cartels-are-taking-control-of-the-fishing-and-logging-industry-crime-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mexican cartels are taking control of the fishing and logging industry\u2019: Crime expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">The link between drug and animal trafficking in Mexico is becoming closer every day. Poachers and loggers are forced to work for the\u00a0Sinaloa cartel\u00a0or the\u00a0Jalisco New Generation cartel\u00a0(CJNG), who pay them in illegal drugs such as methamphetamine and fentanyl. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">China\u2019s insatiable thirst for species such as totoaba, sea cucumber and abalone has turned animal trafficking into a lucrative business, and one Mexico\u2019s organized crime groups want to control. Mexican cartels are now delivering these species to Chinese traders, who in return provide the chemical precursors needed to make illegal drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">This task has been made easier by the Mexican government\u2019s hands-off approach to the cartels and the fact the country\u2019s environmental authorities are desperately underfunded. Organized crime expert Vanda Felbab-Brown has dissected this complex web in her latest investigation for the Brookings Institution, titled\u00a0China-linked wildlife poaching and trafficking in Mexico. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">The report explains that Mexico\u2019s fishing and logging industries are increasingly being controlled by the cartels in order to supply Chinese demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":4,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[2344,2490,4134,3566],"region":[2151],"source":[9282],"country":[2244],"state":[],"city":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/newss"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94948,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newss\/94947\/revisions\/94948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94947"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=94947"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=94947"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=94947"},{"taxonomy":"state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/state?post=94947"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icsf.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=94947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}