CARTEL STORIES |TRANSPORT MONEY FOR THE CARTEL
Channel: WRONG TO STRONG
Date: 2021-01-27

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The cartels make billions of dollars on the drug trade. But they have to work out complicated schemes to get those dollars they make from addicts in the United States back into Mexico and convert them into usable pesos.

It's a lot of money. And money can overcome lots of challenges.

A recent investigation by U.S. authorities found that between 2004 and 2007, one large U.S. bank allowed nearly $500 billion of drug money to be wired through its systems, no questions asked.

Many of the wire transfers ended up in Culiacán, Sinaloa, the place to go to cash out American greenbacks for pesos in Mexico's organized crime capital. Experts describe it as a violent city along the Pacific Coast with a long history of drug trafficking.

Parasols line the streets of El Mercadito, the little market. The setup is the same at nearly every parasol. A woman sits in its shade, surrounded by 2 or 3 young, well built men.

A car approaches. Somebody was paid in American dollars and needs to convert that to Mexican pesos but doesn't want to report where the money came from. A negotiation. Then the cash transaction and money exchangers simply walks the dollars over to the money exchange house – “casas de cambia” – and cashes it out. The money exchange houses have reporting limits. So, if it's too much cash, and it often is, the money is divided up among more people to cash out.

One of the money exchangers speaks freely, his partners walking away when this reporter approaches. He said he has no idea where the money came from. He knows it started in the United States, but doesn't know how it got to this street in Culiacán.

The money exchanger said business was slow. There are some days here where he alone changes out $10,000 to $20,000, he said. There's at least ten parasol stations on this block. And there's enough work for everyone, he said.

The money exchanged on this street is small time. The big money transfers – the billions and billions of dollars – that involves the money exchange houses and big banks in the United States.


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