Mexico - China Econ Group

Drugs: The Largest National Security Threat for 2024

By Antonio Graceffo February 16, 2024Blog

By Antonio Graceffo In its recently published Homeland Threat Assessment 2024, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identifies drugs as the largest national security threat. More than 100,000 Americans died…

Breaking the Grip: Comprehensive Policy Recommendations to Defeat Drug Cartels

By Antonio Graceffo December 21, 2023World

By Antonio Graceffo In 2022, drug overdoses claimed the lives of over 100,000 Americans. The primary sources of illegal drugs flooding into the United States are the Mexican drug cartels, who…

Narcotrafficking’s Impact on Source, Transit, and User Countries

By Antonio Graceffo December 12, 2023Blog

By Antonio Graceffo Narcotrafficking is a transnational crime with drugs, weapons, money, and people crossing international borders for illicit purposes. Generally, narcotrafficking involves at least three countries: the source country,…

Sinaloa Cartel as international terror organization

By Antonio Graceffo December 12, 2023U.S.A

By Antonio Graceffo The Sinaloa drug cartel is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in the U.S. It also uses violence and corruption to control police, courts, and politicians…

Where Transnational Crime Meets Terrorism

By Antonio Graceffo December 2, 2023Blog

By Antonio Graceffo Terrorist groups and transnational crime organizations share many of the same attributes, operating outside of the law, often committing violent acts and murder, as well as engaging…

Drug Cartels Terrorist Organizations Threaten U.S. Security

By Antonio Graceffo November 11, 2023World

By Antonio Graceffo According to the State Department’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report of 2022, Mexico is the primary source of illegal drugs in the United States, including heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, and…

CCP Doing Nothing to Stop Drug-Precursor Sales to the US

By Antonio Graceffo September 15, 2023Blog

By Antonio Graceffo CommentaryRoughly 90 percent of fentanyl deaths in the United States can be traced back to China, with Mexican drug cartels turning Chinese precursor materials into finished products.…

Declare Narcotraffickers a Terrorist Threat to National Security

By Antonio Graceffo September 8, 2023U.S.A

By Antonio Graceffo Officially recognizing narcotrafficking as a national security threat and narcotraffickers as international terrorist organizations would allow the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to…

Southern Border Crisis: Drugs, Human Trafficking, and Cartels

By Antonio Graceffo July 27, 2023U.S.A

Antonio Graceffo An estimated 20 million Americans are addicted to drugs. Fentanyl, which alone accounted for two-thirds of the 110,236 overdose deaths and killed over 73,000 Americans in 2021, is now the main narcotic that Mexican cartels…