![]() There are different authorities within our agencies and expertise. “We’ve talked a lot in the last 10, 15, 20 years about the ‘whole-of-government approach’. It is progress that a former DEA assistant special agent in charge, Christopher Urben, is eager to see. Now, deepening antipathy between Washington and Beijing, driven by accusations of intellectual property theft and spying, as well as geopolitical strains from issues such as Taiwan and the war in Ukraine, appear poised to spark action from Capitol Hill. US law enforcement and government agencies including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the military have all tracked the cartel’s supply chains and money-laundering networks as they expanded into China almost a decade ago. Yet the evidence of the relationship between the cartel and Chinese entities is not new. In April, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Mexico had yet to notify China that it had seized any illegal precursor shipments. The sanctions notice identified the younger Guzmán as a manager of the cartel’s “super labs”, which turn precursors bought from China and elsewhere into fentanyl.Ĭhinese officials have repeatedly denied any nexus between China and illicit fentanyl, often touting their country’s leadership as the first to schedule the opioid as a narcotic. On 9 May, three weeks after the US Department of Justice issued the sweeping indictments that caught Rubio and Wu in their net, the US treasury department followed up with sanctions against Joaquín Guzmán López, 36, one of the four sons of the Sinaloa cartel founder, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, who have amassed power and steered the cartel into the fentanyl trade since their father’s last arrest. The pair are just two links in a chain connecting the Sinaloa cartel to Chinese companies and criminal organizations, relationships that are now drawing increasing attention from the US government after years of investigation by law enforcement. The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, called the Mexico-based Sinaloa cartel “the largest, most violent, and most prolific fentanyl trafficking operation in the world” in a statement accompanying the sweeping indictments covering cartel bosses, enforcers and suppliers such as Rubio and Wu. “We are the biggest in Mexico so we can purchase a lot,” the indictment quotes Rubio telling Wu Yonghao, a sales representative for the chemical supplier Wuhan Shuokang Biological Technology Co Ltd, in an encrypted message before her arrest. After applying 20% AI Denoise to the image the resulting file looks noticeably cleaner (bottom) but shows some added vibrance (blue around the eye orbital and yellow at the gape of the bill).According to the arresting agency and a federal indictment released on 14 April, for almost 10 years Rubio arranged illegal imports of controlled drug-making substances, sometimes hiding them in food containers and leveraging corruption to deliver the chemicals to the cartel. 41% Vibrance had been added to the image before applying the AI Denoise filter (top). Here is an image of a Hermit Thrush, expanded to 300% to show noise in the original image captured at ISO 6400. I'm finding that de-saturating the blue channel in Lightroom (-25%) does a nice job of removing the slight blue tinge that seems to appear along edges of white or black feathers. Otherwise, I see no problems adjusting White Balance and Tone selections before applying AI Denoise.įollow-up 4/27/23: The added vibrance appears to appear in the form of blue-channel vibrance. I've found from my examples below that AI Denoise appears to add a touch of vibrance to images, and this added vibrance can appear overdone if you apply any vibrance adjustment before applying AI Denoise. * - Quick answer is that Adobe recommends AI Denoise be applied BEFORE adjustments. He also has follow-up video that helps answer the question of whether to apply the AI Denoise feature BEFORE or AFTER making adjustments in Lightroom*. Anthony Morganti is a Lightroom Guru and describes the new AI Denoise feature in Lightroom 12.3. Ī number of reviewers are describing their experiences online, including YouTube videos that I've found helpful. Full description of version 12.3 improvements is described here. 12.3 that added a couple of new features, one of which was a new AI Denoise filter to apply noise reduction to original RAW files! This noise-reduction is a new addition to the Enhancement feature that Adobe released last year that allowed AI (artificial intelligence) to generate high-resolution images from original RAW files. Original (left), Noiseware (center), AI Denoise (right), ISO 6400Ī few weeks ago Adobe came out with Lightroom Classic Ver. ![]()
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