Sec. 30253. Narcotics trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean
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It is the sense of Congress that— narcotics trafficking continues to pose a security threat to the countries and peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean; other forms of transnational organized crime, including arms trafficking, human smuggling, money laundering, and illicit financing, are drivers of irregular migration; narcotics trafficking is fueled by governments that fail to curb the illicit drug trade by adequately regulating the legal trade of non-fentanyl opioids and precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl, fentanyl analogs, and other synthetic drugs; further, governments that do not cooperate sufficiently on financial investigations and prosecutions, withhold information with respect to money laundering crimes, or are determined to facilitate illicit activities, particularly by transnational organized criminal organizations, should be held accountable; as noted in the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2020, China has not cooperated sufficiently on financial investigations and does not provide adequate responses to requests for financial investigation information ; the United States should apply economic and other targeted financial sanctions with respect to individuals engaged in financial crimes and money laundering that fosters narcotics trafficking in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean; and the United States should look to policies to hold accountable countries that fail to sufficiently investigate financial crimes and money laundering that foster narcotics trafficking in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.