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Chinese Drug Traffickers Set Up Shop in Belt and Road Chile

A Chinese drug trafficking syndicate known as the “Bang de Fujian” has been building a high-tech indoor marijuana cultivating empire in Chile since at least 2020, multiple news reports in the country confirmed this week, citing the Investigations Police of Chile (PDI).

A worker wearing protective gear trims a plant at the Pideka SAS medical cannabis cultivat

Ketanji Brown Jackson to Drug Kingpin on Sentencing: ‘I Am Sorry’

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) addressed President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s comments to a “career criminal” drug “kingpin” in 2018, in which she stated that she “shared his frustration” with regards to not being able to give him a lighter sentence, adding, “And for this, I am sorry.”

U.S. President Joe Biden (L) looks on as Ketanji Brown Jackson, circuit judge on the U.S.