Venezuela Moves Against Dissidents as Organized Crime Infects Border Region
Authorities in Venezuela have accused the country's ousted attorney general of running a multimillion-dollar extortion ring, while events on the Colombian border highlight how such political battles are distracting justice…
Reports Show Ex-FARC Criminal Cells Taking Shape Around Colombia
Colombia's FARC guerrillas are just weeks away from completing their demobilization, but reports of arms thefts, drug trafficking, forced recruitment and murders linked to FARC dissidents show how a new…
US, El Salvador Tough Talk on Security Distracts From Core Issues
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions is visiting El Salvador to discuss regional anti-gang operations, as politicians in both countries push a hardline approach that may prove popular with much of…
Sentenced Without Conviction: A Tale of Pretrial Detention in Colombia
On April 3, 2014, a dozen plainclothes police officers crashed through the door of Norbert Reinhart's Medellín apartment brandishing an arrest warrant for murder. Over three years later, and Reinhart…
Colombia Amnesty Decree Eases Fears Over FARC Prisoners
The Colombian government has issued a new decree to facilitate the release of incarcerated FARC guerrillas, removing an obstacle to the amnesty process that had become one of the most…
Blurring the Line: The Security Secretary and the Medellín Mafia
The arrest of Medellín's security secretary in north Colombia has rocked the city establishment and challenged the political elite's prevailing narrative it has spent years promoting. But was he mediating…
InSide Colombia's BACRIM: Murder
Life of a Sicario Anatomy of a Hit The BACRIM's control over territories such as the north Colombian region of Bajo Cauca comes at the point…
InSide Colombia's BACRIM: Power
The Bajo Cauca Franchise BACRIM-Land Armed Power Dynamics The BACRIM in places like the region of Bajo Cauca are a typical manifestation of Colombia's underworld today:…
InSide Colombia's BACRIM: Money
Drugs Extortion Criminal Cash Flows Millions of dollars in dirty money circulate constantly around Bajo Cauca, flowing upwards and outwards from a broad range of criminal…
Rights Groups Plea for International Criminal Court Assessment of Coahuila, Mexico Case
Human rights organizations in Mexico are calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged crimes against humanity in the state of Coahuila, once again raising questions over the court's…
Venezuela Pilot's Extradition Could Lead to Cartel of the Suns Revelations
Colombia has extradited a Venezuelan former army captain with ties to the administration of President Nicolás Maduro to face drug trafficking charges in the United States, in a move that…
Ecuador Fishermen Jailed Abroad Illustrative of 'Drug War' Justice
Fishing industry workers and their families in Ecuador are pleading for assistance for over 100 fishermen incarcerated in foreign prisons on drug trafficking charges, highlighting how those at the bottom…
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This week InSight Crime investigators Sara García and María Fernanda Ramírez led a discussion of the challenges posed by Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s “Total Peace” plan within urban contexts. The…
InSight Crime Cited in New Colombia Drug Policy Plan
InSight Crime’s work on emerging coca cultivation in Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela was cited in the Colombian government’s…
InSight Crime Discusses Honduran Women's Prison Investigation
Investigators Victoria Dittmar and María Fernanda Ramírez discussed InSight Crime’s recent investigation of a massacre in Honduras’ only women’s prison in a Twitter Spaces event on…
Human Trafficking Investigation Published in Leading Mexican Newspaper
Leading Mexican media outlet El Universal featured our most recent investigation, “The Geography of Human Trafficking on the US-Mexico Border,” on the front page of its August 30…
InSight Crime's Coverage of Ecuador Leads International Debate
This week, Jeremy McDermott, co-director of InSight Crime, was interviewed by La Sexta, a Spanish television channel, about the situation of extreme violence and insecurity in Ecuador…
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