🌏 This article is about “Chinese organized crime entering Chile,” instead of a criminal enterprise successfully integrating into Chile’s legal, trade, labor, and political systems. Decriminalized consumption plus illegal large-scale production creates a predictable arbitrage space. Chinese trade associations are framed as camouflage, but in reality, they function as logistics, trust networks, dispute resolution systems, and legitimacy shields.

https://insightcrime.org/news/why-chinese-mafias-are-moving-into-chile/ #TransnationalCrime