How to move the Mexican cartoons and Chinese criminal networks “Cocaine from the sea” through Canadian ports

Chinese organizing crime networks and Mexican dignities use Canadian ports for the trading of fish that are very profitable for chemicals for the sects needed to produce fentanel, according to a memorandum from the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA).

She said that organized criminal networks transport fish – called Toturaba – from the West Coast to China, while chemical elimination is sent to toxic medicines through Canadian ports.

The report from CBSA, first I got a radio-Canada By requesting freedom of information, Canada said it is used as a “crossing point” for the illegal product – although the amount of fish that pass through Canada and the amount of fentanels that are exchanged for them, not included in the report.

The document, which was originally published in French in October 2024, says, “The Chinese organizational crime, in cooperation with the Mexican Cartlat, facilitates the illegal movement of unlawful wildlife trafficking networks, which is of a multiple criminal nature and participates in dangerous criminal behavior.”

Polyyinal groups refer to networks that pass over more than one illegal commodity, such as fake goods or illegal drugs.

The CBSA report indicates that a new criminal network known as “Dragon Cartel”, which consists of Chinese and Mexican citizens, was created to deal specifically with Totaba smuggling.

The seven -page document says that Western ports are a goal, and that “people in Canada are regularly involved in illegal import and export and raising protected species.”

Luis Hurasio Nagira, the Mexican journalist who was in the activity of the Cartel, said that the Vancouver port, in particular, is subject to criminal activity because it links the western coast ports in Manzanilo and Los Angeles to the Asian and European markets.

“Since the world is globalized, the organized crime is also globalized,” he said.

“This is a kind of strategic point for this exchange of illegal goods, and they have found the opportunity, possibility and infrastructure to carry out these illegal deals in Vancouver.”

A press release in 2023 from the US Treasury also found that Vancouver became a “strategic” publication of Sino Cartel In the distribution of fentanel.

80 thousand dollars from a kilo

Totaba is a type of endangered fish that lives in the Gulf of California off the western coast of Mexico. The length of the species can reach two meters long and the subject of huge levels of overfishing for several years.

But the fish are mainly known for their swimming persistence, which sells such high prices called “Cocaine of the Sea”.

Totaba Swim Pladders is sold on the Chinese black market for use in traditional cuisine, medicine and cosmetics, and can sell up to $ 80,000 per kilogram.

The rare product is so profitable that some types of pigs I pushed the brink of extinctionThey were illegally killed in large numbers while fishermen tried to extract fish from them.

Nagira said that the Canadian authorities will face an arduous battle that cracks in the Totoraba trade due to a huge amount of goods that pass through the ports, as well as the difficulty of identifying illegal swords in other legal fish products.

“It is difficult because this is not cocaine, right? He said that adding CBSA may need to invest in training and specialized infrastructure to identify smuggled products.

“When you have a container filled with tilapia, octopus, or whatever among these goods, you can smuggle these Totaba bombs.”

According to the CBSA report, Bladders Totaba is often smuggled to swim alongside fish and frozen parts.

While they are often transported in the coolers and backpacks, criminal networks expand their methods to include smuggling in gasoline tanks, backup tires and hidden vehicle compositions.

The lights on the fentanel from Canada

Revelation comes at a time of increasing political interest on the flow and production of fentanel from Canada.

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly raised the medicine to the United States as a justification for the overhaul definitions, which are currently suspended.

In response, Canada has Eye of the fentanel Caesar In an attempt to provide the already low percentage of fatal ophthalmic south to the United States to zero to zero.

Canada also passed A border security plan of $ 1.3 billion in advance was announced This includes strengthening the forty -ninth parallel with helicopters, technology and new employees and said that they will help the cartals as terrorist organizations.

The numbers of customs and US border protection (CBP) show very toxic drug seizures along the Canadian border relatively low compared to other countries. Agency He seized 19.5 kilograms From Fintanel on the Canadian border last year, compared to 9,570 kilograms on its borders with Mexico.

Fanthanil had a devastating effect on both the United States and Canada. More than 49,000 Canadians died due to excessive doses of toxic drugs since 2016, and in the same year, BC announced that the toxic drug crisis is in a state of public health. US centers to combat and prevent diseases The drug said more than 74,000 Americans were killed in 2023.

While there is a renewed focus on the distribution of fentanel from Canada, Nájera said it is difficult to determine a portion of the components of fentanel that is converted into other international markets as soon as they are circulated.

“These chemicals coming from China may remain here in Canada, but I am sure that a large amount of them returns to Mexico to the port of Manzanilo or to the Los Cabus region.”

According to the Brookings Institute, economic relations between China and Mexico expanded rapidly, as trade between the two countries reached $ 100 billion in 2021.