{"id":75271,"date":"2025-11-20T23:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/zhi-dong-zhang-mexico-drugs-china"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:20:18","slug":"brother-wang-a-global-manhunt-and-the-chinese-mexican-drug-nexus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75271","title":{"rendered":"Brother Wang, a global manhunt and the Chinese-Mexican drug nexus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged trafficker Zhi Dong Zhang escaped via a tunnel in Mexico before flying to Cuba and reportedly Russia but now finds himself on trial in a Brooklyn courtroom<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/may\/18\/china-mexico-opioid-traficking-us-sanctions\">The China-Mexico fentanyl pipeline: increasingly sophisticated and deadly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like so many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jul\/14\/mexico-el-chapo-reward-prison-escape\">great escapes<\/a>, it involved a tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>One night in July, in the Mexico City neighbourhood where he was under house arrest, Zhi Dong Zhang snuck through a hole into the property nextdoor and escaped from under the noses of the soldiers guarding him.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/20\/zhi-dong-zhang-mexico-drugs-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged trafficker Zhi Dong Zhang escaped via a tunnel in Mexico before flying to Cuba and reportedly Russia but now finds himself on trial in a Brooklyn courtroomThe China-Mexico fentanyl pipeline: increasingly sophisticated and deadlyLike so many gre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5065,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,50,1018,1057,3427,1405,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-china","category-cuba","category-drugs-trade","category-fentanyl","category-mexico","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75272,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75271\/revisions\/75272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}