China and Mexico Drug Trade: How a Century-Old Pipeline Fuels Today’s Cartel Empires

China and Mexico Drug Trade: How a Century-Old Pipeline Fuels Today’s Cartel Empires

China and Mexico’s drug trade: A century-long pipeline The China and Mexico drug trade did not begin with fentanyl. It began with opium pipes in the early 1900s and has evolved into a transnational supply chain that now underpins synthetic drugs flooding the United States. The recent killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, better known as El Mencho, renewed scrutiny of how his cartel, Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, built a fentanyl empire. Inve…