There are different authorities within our agencies and expertise. “We’ve talked a lot in the last 10, 15, 20 years about the ‘whole-of-government approach’. It is progress that a former DEA assistant special agent in charge, Christopher Urben, is eager to see. Now, deepening antipathy between Washington and Beijing, driven by accusations of intellectual property theft and spying, as well as geopolitical strains from issues such as Taiwan and the war in Ukraine, appear poised to spark action from Capitol Hill. US law enforcement and government agencies including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the military have all tracked the cartel’s supply chains and money-laundering networks as they expanded into China almost a decade ago. Yet the evidence of the relationship between the cartel and Chinese entities is not new. In April, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Mexico had yet to notify China that it had seized any illegal precursor shipments. The sanctions notice identified the younger Guzmán as a manager of the cartel’s “super labs”, which turn precursors bought from China and elsewhere into fentanyl.Ĭhinese officials have repeatedly denied any nexus between China and illicit fentanyl, often touting their country’s leadership as the first to schedule the opioid as a narcotic.
On 9 May, three weeks after the US Department of Justice issued the sweeping indictments that caught Rubio and Wu in their net, the US treasury department followed up with sanctions against Joaquín Guzmán López, 36, one of the four sons of the Sinaloa cartel founder, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, who have amassed power and steered the cartel into the fentanyl trade since their father’s last arrest. The pair are just two links in a chain connecting the Sinaloa cartel to Chinese companies and criminal organizations, relationships that are now drawing increasing attention from the US government after years of investigation by law enforcement. The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, called the Mexico-based Sinaloa cartel “the largest, most violent, and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world” in a statement accompanying the sweeping indictments covering cartel bosses, enforcers and suppliers such as Rubio and Wu. “We are the biggest in Mexico so we can purchase a lot,” the indictment quotes Rubio telling Wu Yonghao, a sales representative for the chemical supplier Wuhan Shuokang Biological Technology Co Ltd, in an encrypted message before her arrest. Send us feedback about these examples.According to the arresting agency and a federal indictment released on 14 April, for almost 10 years Rubio arranged illegal imports of controlled drug-making substances, sometimes hiding them in food containers and leveraging corruption to deliver the chemicals to the cartel. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'warlike.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
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WARLIKE SYNONYM SERIES
Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2012 But there remains a sharp divide over whether a mounting series of individual and small-group attacks could add up to a warlike conflict that destabilizes the country.
2022 Rather, the personality traits and dispositions are inherited, and these are the basic raw materials that lead to warlike tendencies. 2023 But according to myth, Freyr gave up his sword to marry the giantess Gerd - an action the warlike Amleth would view with contempt. 2016 The three judges deciding the appeal didn’t give clear indications of their thinking, though one questioned how Merck could be the victim of a warlike attack if almost all the damage occurred in the U.S. David Sims, The Atlantic, 5 July 2022 That could mean that, despite evidence of early warfare from other sites around the world, early Holocene hunter-gatherers weren’t innately warlike. Miriam Berger, Washington Post, The character’s origin story reminds viewers of Ragnarok’s pointed depiction of Thor and his Asgardian cohort as warlike colonizers. 2021 The video has sparked protests in his hometown and calls for justice across Brazil, where police are notorious for warlike raids - heavy-handed actions encouraged by far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro as part of his populist crime-fighting agenda. Recent Examples on the Web Brazilian police killed at least 25 people in a warlike operation against a heavily armed criminal gang on Sunday, marking a violent escalation in the country’s ongoing struggle against sophisticated criminal groups staging elaborate bank heists in southern Brazil.
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