Interactive Dashboard: Criminal Dynamics in Northern Triangle and Tri-Border Area
This interactive dashboard aims to map Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in the Northern Triangle (NT) of Central America and the Tri-Border Area (TBA) between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. Users can…
Refusal to Respond to Calls Highlights Demise of Rio’s UPP Program
Rio De Janeiro’s Police Pacification Units (UPPs), already suffering from crippling budget cuts and broken public confidence, are refusing to respond to calls from areas considered to be of “high…
Belize Profile
The small Central American nation of Belize has a remarkably high homicide rate. The main sources of violence in the country are domestic gangs that operate mainly in Belize City,…
InSight Semanal: seguridad y lucha contra las drogas, lecciones desde Latinoamérica
En nuestra sesión de Facebook Live del 3 de agosto, nuestro editor sénior Mike LaSusa conversó con la asociada sénior de la Institución Brookings, Vanda Felbab-Brown, sobre las lecciones aprendidas…
Criminalizing Drug Use Has Been Counterproductive: Report
A new report criticizes the criminalization of drug use and concludes that the mass incarceration of small-time drug offenders has been inefficient and has led to a crisis in penitentiary…
Nicaragua Profile
Nicaragua has long been one of the least violent countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Although some local gangs and at least one transnational criminal organization have a foothold…
Cesar Augusto Torres Lujan, alias ‘Mono Vides’
A former fighter in the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), Cesar Augusto Torres Lujan, alias "Mono Vides," was a commander for the Paisas in Antioquia province. He died…
Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias ‘Otoniel’
Dairo Antonio Úsuga, alias “Otoniel,” is the head of Colombia’s most powerful criminal group, the Urabeños, and the country’s most wanted man. But his grip on power is slipping as…
Luis E. Calle Serna
Luis Enrique Calle Serna was a leader in the feared and ambitious Rastrojos criminal organization in Colombia. He surrendered to US authorities in Panama on October 2, 2012, and was sentenced…
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InSight Crime Events – Border Crime: The Northern Triangle and Tri-Border Area
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…
InSight Crime’s ‘Memo Fantasma’ Investigation Wins Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize
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…
InSight Crime – From Uncovering Organized Crime to Finding What Works
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. …
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