The flow of cocaine to Europe may have suffered along with most licit businesses due to the Covid-19 crisis, but few believe the damage to the drug trade will be…
The Cocaine Pipeline to Europe
INVESTIGATIONS
/ 9 FEB 2021
When Mexico’s drug cartels forced Colombian traffickers out of the US cocaine market, they seized control of the most coveted prize in the global drug trade. But the smartest traffickers…
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The United States, a Special Operations Unit and a Massacre in Mexico
ELITES AND ORGANIZED CRIME
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12 FEB 2021
US authorities at both the federal and state level provided training to members of a Mexican special operations unit with a history of alleged human rights abuses that was recently…
NEWS
Venezuela’s Other Plight: Sex Trafficking in Trinidad and Tobago
GENDER AND CRIME
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11 FEB 2021
Ongoing interceptions targeting sex trafficking rings operating between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago have revealed the extent to which Venezuelan women and minors are being continually smuggled to the island…
NEWS
Top Mexico Tax Official Fired for Permitting Money Laundering
ELITES AND ORGANIZED CRIME
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11 FEB 2021
Mexico's tax authority has dismissed Ramón García Gibson, one of its highest-ranking officials, for “evident conflicts of interest” and his participation in a scheme that enabled the Sinaloa and Norte…
NEWS
Mexico’s Tourist Corridor: Dream Destination for Drug Traffickers
COCAINE
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10 FEB 2021
A recent string of high-profile drug plane interceptions suggests the once tranquil Mexican state of Quintana Roo is being increasingly relied upon as a drug trafficking hub.
NEWS
Honduras President Targeted Again in US Criminal Investigation
ELITES AND ORGANIZED CRIME
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10 FEB 2021
Federal prosecutors have specified in a recently filed court document that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been under investigation for connections to drug trafficking, though US authorities have targeted…
NEWS
Human Trafficking Accompanies Illegal Mining in Venezuela’s Orinoco
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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9 FEB 2021
A new report on human trafficking in Venezuela's Bolívar state shows that forced labor camps and sex trafficking rings are rampant in the region's illegal mines.
NEWS
Oxygen Shortage in Mexico Spurs Profiteering
COVID AND CRIME
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8 FEB 2021
With oxygen in short supply in Mexico amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a black market is expanding -- in another example of medical shortages spurring fraud and profiteering.
NEWS
The Little-Known Bolivia-Asia Drug Route
BOLIVIA
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5 FEB 2021
The seizure of a cocaine-laced package, bound for Thailand, at an airport in Bolivia, shines light on the little-known drug trafficking route to south and southeastern Asia that relies on…
NEWS
InSight Crime Presents Guatemala Cross-Border Crime and Corruption Investigation
COCAINE
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4 FEB 2021
Drug trafficking has been reconfigured in Guatemala. The large clans that traditionally dominated the business have broken up.
NEWS
US-Trained Police Implicated in Mexico Migrant Massacre
ELITES AND CRIME
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3 FEB 2021
A dozen police officers have been implicated in the massacre of 19 people along the US-Mexico border at the end of January, underscoring the systematic violence directed at those most…
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It was around 5 a.m. when the MSC Gayane cargo freighter docked in the port of Philadelphia on June 17, 2019. Instead of continuing on to its scheduled destination –…
BRAZIL
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9 FEB 2021
In July 2020, British drug trafficker Robert Dawes was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in one of the most emblematic European drug trafficking cases of the…
COCAINE
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9 FEB 2021
Cocaine is a criminal steroid. Those that gain access to its riches enjoy accelerated growth and power – quickly – usually leaving a trail of violence and corruption in their…
COCAINE
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9 FEB 2021
Operation ‘Tiburón Galloway’ began as a local investigation by prosecutors in the Italian region of Calabria in 2001, but quickly snowballed into a multinational, multiagency investigation.
AUC
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9 FEB 2021
On April 30, 1984, the Mercedes taking Colombian Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla home after work was strafed with machine gun fire.
COCAINE
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9 FEB 2021
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/ 28 JAN 2021
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ECUADOR
/ 2 JAN 2021
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InSight Crime Events – Border Crime: The Northern Triangle and Tri-Border Area
ARGENTINA
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25 JAN 2021
Through several rounds of extensive field investigations, our researchers have analyzed and mapped out the main illicit economies and criminal groups present in 39 border departments spread across the six countries of study – the Northern Triangle trio of Guatemala, Honduras, and El…
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InSight Crime’s ‘Memo Fantasma’ Investigation Wins Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize
COLOMBIA
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20 NOV 2020
The staff at InSight Crime was awarded the prestigious Simón Bolívar national journalism prize in Colombia for its two-year investigation into the drug trafficker known as “Memo Fantasma,” which was…
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InSight Crime – From Uncovering Organized Crime to Finding What Works
COLOMBIA
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12 NOV 2020
This project began 10 years ago as an effort to address a problem: the lack of daily coverage, investigative stories and analysis of organized crime in the Americas. …