Quintana Roo
HighMexico · Mexican state · capital Chetumal
Situation
Cancún & Tulum tourist corridor. Beach club shootings, drug retail wars. Caribbean cocaine entry. Significant Russian-speaking and Israeli criminal presence in Tulum/Playa del Carmen — MDMA, cocaine retail, and tourism laundering (2019 CDMX Plaza Artz assassination linked to Israeli mafia).
Trade exposure
USMCA tracker →- ActiveMining · Investor-state (USMCA Ch. 14)· ICSID / USMCA Ch. 14Vulcan Materials USMCA Ch. 14 investor-state arbitrationJan 12, 2024 · ongoing
Vulcan Materials (Calica) seeking USD 1.9B+ over MX expropriation of its Quintana Roo limestone quarry/port. Test case for USMCA's Ch. 14 grandfathered investor-state mechanism (sunsets July 2026). Outcome will set precedent for the Sempra and TC Energy disputes pending.
- ActiveHoney · Antidumping· US CommerceAntidumping duty on Mexican honeyDec 15, 2022 · ongoing
10.43% antidumping duty on raw Mexican honey hitting Yucatán Peninsula apiarists who supply ~5% of US honey imports. Compounded by ongoing battles with EU over Bt-pollen contamination from Mayan-belt soy plantations.
- TourismCore· Extortion / pisovia Los Pelones
Cancún / Tulum beach club + jet-ski / restaurant piso; Caribbean cocaine retail.
Political integrity
All →- ConvictedEmbezzlement · Jun 04, 2017~$1B MXN allegedRoberto Borge — Quintana Roo embezzlement, Belize extraditionRoberto Borge (Governor of Quintana Roo 2011-16) · PRISectors: real-estate, tourism
Detained in Panama June 2017 after fleeing via Belize; extradited to MX 2018. Convicted of operations with illicit-origin resources, criminal association, and breach of duty. Sold state property to family / cronies at fire-sale prices.
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Active armed groups
- Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generaciónmethamphetaminefentanylcocaineextortion
- Los Pelonesnarcomenudeoextortion
- Russian Organized Crime (Baja California)money launderingreal estate launderingsex traffickingcocaine wholesale