China's trade with Latin America has grown significantly in the last two decades from around $12 billion per year to in 2000 to about $500 billion today from 12 to 500 billion in just a short 25 years. Chinese government linked corporations now control all or part of 40 ports in Latin America. including the mega container port of Chans K and in Peru. These trade flows between China and the Latin America can easily hide fentanyl precursors and the illicit wildlife that the drug cartels sometimes pay Chinese criminal organizations with. (05:09–05:18)
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Asserts that Chinese government-linked corporations control parts of 40 Latin American ports.
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