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Mexican military personnel stand guard over oil pipelines as the government attempts to reduce oil theft -- or huachicol.

Violence Rising in Hidalgo, Mexico’s Oil Theft Center

by Peter Appleby 17 Nov 202213 Oct 2023

InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy McDermott speaks at to the audience at a United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime conference

The Organization Environmental Crime

InSight Crime Presents Side Events at UN Organized Crime Conference

by Peter Appleby 1 Nov 202213 Oct 2023

Protestors in Brazil following the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

News Environmental Crime

Latin America’s Massacres of Environmental Defenders Continue with Impunity: Study

by Peter Appleby 7 Oct 202213 Oct 2023

Mexico army soldiers stand in formation

Mexico Reliant on Army to Fight Crime Despite Human Rights Abuses

by Peter Appleby 6 Oct 202213 Oct 2023

Trinidad and Tobago's Acting Commissioner of Police McDonald Jacob talks about homicide rates

Trinidad and Tobago Struggling to Put Brakes on Rising Homicide Rate

by Peter Appleby 21 Sep 202213 Oct 2023

Police forces stop buses

News Human Smuggling

Corumbá: The Beating Heart of Bolivia-Brazil Smuggling

by Peter Appleby 9 Sep 202213 Oct 2023

What Can Be Learned from Mexico’s Latest Wave of Attacks?

by Peter Appleby 18 Aug 202213 Oct 2023

Illegal fishers at work fishing lobster in the Mexican state of Yucatán

News Illegal Fishing

Lobster Fishermen in Mexico’s Yucatán Organize to Protect Their Catch

by Peter Appleby 2 Aug 202213 Oct 2023

A so-called narco-tank is crushed in Reynosa, Tamaulipas by Mexico's Attorney General's Office

News

“Narco-Tanks”: Vehicle of Choice for Patrolling Mexico’s Criminal Landscape

by Peter Appleby 29 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

Police stand on a road in Sonora after finding four bodies

News Sinaloa Cartel

El Chapo’s Sons Fight Rafael Caro Quintero’s Men in Sonora, Mexico

by Peter Appleby 22 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

Rafael Caro Quintero is interviewed b by Miguel Dimayuga/Proceso

Rafael Caro Quintero’s Capture in Mexico Celebrated and Overstated

by Peter Appleby and Chris Dalby 16 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

A church goer in Mexico City

News

Have Mexico’s Cartels Stopped Respecting the Catholic Church?

by Peter Appleby 11 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

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