InSight Crime Podcast
InSight Crime’s Podcast is back for Season 2, starting July 23.
For 15 years, InSight Crime has investigated organized crime across the Americas. Along the way, we’ve met thousands of people, from government insiders and criminal operators to community leaders and families caught in the crossfire. Behind every investigation are stories of loss, resilience, courage, and hope. Our podcast tells those stories, because the real impact of organized crime is rarely about the person with the nickname. It’s about the people left to live with the consequences. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and watch the trailer now.
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Season 2
Listen starting July 23. This time in English and Spanish.
EP01
Podcast | “They Are Going to Kill Us”: Sex Workers in Peru Face Extortion and Violence
Tren de Aragua’s takeover of Lima’s sex trade has left a trail of dead women who refused to pay their extortion fees. Their murders were then used to send a chilling message to those that remain.
Podcast | A Marked House: Extortion in Ecuador
Organized crime’s rise in Ecuador is about more than just cocaine and gang wars. It has ruptured the very fabric of Ecuadorian society, breaking bonds between neighbors, stifling small business, and generating fear and isolation.
EP01 – A Marked House | Durán, Ecuador – July 23
EP02 – They’re Going to Kill Us | Lima, Peru – July 30
EP03 – Three Ways to Lose a Child | Buenaventura, Colombia – August 6
EP04 – Gio and Fito: When Gangsta Rap Becomes Real | Ecuador – August 13
EP05 – The Monster | Mexico – August 20
Season 1
Episodes
EP06 · The Rebel and the Peacemaker
In our last episode of this season, we explore the incredible life of Raúl Mijango, the rebel turned congressman turned gang mediator turned inmate who personified what has since…
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EP05 · Crime Strengthens Crime
In this episode, we talk to Ivana David, a Brazilian judge who has had a front-row seat to the creation and the evolution of the region’s largest criminal organization,…
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EP04 · Demented Society
Abraham Barberi is a walking paradox. He is from Mexico but lives in the United States. He does missionary work but plays guitar in a death metal band. He…
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EP03 · One Prison, Two Gangs
On June 20, 2023, at least 46 inmates were killed by members of the 18th Street gang at Honduras’ National Female Penitentiary for Social Adaptation, in what was one…
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EP02 ·Daughter of Coca
In Colombia, farming coca for cocaine production provides an alternative livelihood in the midst of poverty and state abandonment. At the same time, coca cultivation brings a curse. Behind…
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EP01 · Why Bolivia is Burning
In 2019, a series of wildfires — largely set to clear land for agribusiness and make way for new residents — devastated Santa Cruz, the Bolivian state on the…
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