Victoria Dittmar, Author at InSight Crime

A photo of a person injecting fentanyl.

Is the Fentanyl Market Expanding Across Latin America?

by Victoria Dittmar and Sara Garcia 13 Oct 202317 Oct 2023

Ovidio Guzman Extradition First Picture DEA fentanyl

An Extradition (and a Fentanyl Prohibition) as Mexico Tries a Counterdrug Reset

by Steven Dudley and Victoria Dittmar 18 Sep 202313 Oct 2023

Smoke streams out of the PNFAS prison in Honduras, where 46 women were killed in a clash between gangs.

News

Massacre in Honduran Women’s Prison: A Tragedy Foretold

by Victoria Dittmar 21 Jun 202313 Oct 2023

Investigations Fentanyl

Mexico’s Laws to Regulate Chemicals Work on Paper But Not in Practice

by Victoria Dittmar and Annie Pforzheimer 10 May 202313 Oct 2023

Investigations Synthetic Drugs

Brokers, More Than Mexico’s ‘Cartels,’ Key to Precursor Flow

by Victoria Dittmar 9 May 202313 Oct 2023

La policía hace presencia en el estado fronterizo de Matamoros tras los incidentes de violencia.

News Gulf Cartel

Matamoros, a Symptom of Mexico’s Larger Illness

by Victoria Dittmar 20 Mar 202313 Oct 2023

Investigations Mexico

As Marijuana Fades, Sinaloa’s Organized Crime Does Not

by Parker Asmann and Victoria Dittmar 6 Dec 202219 Oct 2023

News Methamphetamine

Methamphetamine Production in Mexico Is Toxic for the Environment

by Victoria Dittmar 3 Nov 202213 Oct 2023

The seizure of 542 kilos of fentanyl in Sinaloa, Mexico, was the largest the country has ever seen

What Mexico Gets Wrong About Its Fentanyl Problem

by Victoria Dittmar and Sara Garcia 14 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

Ilustración del mapa de Centroamérica con una imagen de cabeza de ganado de fondo

Investigations Mexico

How Black Market Ear Tags Help Flow of Contraband Cattle

by Parker Asmann and Victoria Dittmar 18 May 202213 Oct 2023

News

Elite Unit’s Closure Further Evidence of Reshuffling of US-Mexico Security Cooperation

by Victoria Dittmar 25 Apr 202213 Oct 2023

Two marines on patrol in Nuevo Laredo

News

Mexico Claims Premature Victory After Troops Deployed to Calm Nuevo Laredo

by Victoria Dittmar 25 Mar 202213 Oct 2023

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