Mexico

A collection of U.S. dollar banknotes
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The New Competitors: Chinese Money Networks and the Lebanese Brokers

In January 2021, an American operative named Edgar Joel Martinez-Reyes slipped across the southern border…

General cargo being handled beside a ship and trucks at the port of Cotonou.
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The Service Economy: Why a Cartel Would Hire a Lebanese Broker

One to five days: that was the swift settlement timetable American prosecutors documented when they…

Adel al-Jubeir in October 2018
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The Cartel Hitman Who Wasn’t There

In a Mexican hotel room in July 2011, Manssor Arbabsiar thought he was negotiating the…