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Why Chinese Mafias Are Moving Into Chile
A Chinese crime group, the Bang, has made major inroads into Chile, setting up a marijuana empire and smuggling in migrants to work there.
Tren de Aragua Brand Spurs Criminal Imposters Outside Venezuela
Copycat gangs are increasingly posing as Venezuela's Tren de Aragua to extort victims in Peru and Chile.
Q&A: Latin American Children With Parents in Prison Get No Support
Latin America's constantly growing prison population has seen tens of thousands of children growing up without their parents, with dire consequences.
Chile Profile
Despite its proximity to cocaine-producing Andean countries, Chile has not suffered the negative effects of organized crime to the same extent as other nations in the region. In fact, it is one of the safest nations in Latin America. Since emerging from the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in 1990, Chile has enacted a series of key reforms that have helped build efficient security forces and an independent judicial system. The Chilean prison system, on the other hand, is still subject to numerous issues, including overcrowding, poor conditions and violence.
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Chile has passed new legislation to empower police forces to fight a rise in crime. But will this really make a difference?…
InSight Crime reviews Latin America and the Caribbean's cocaine seizure date from 2022 to find out what it reveals about regional trafficking.
InSight Crime's 2022 Homicide Round-Up covers more countries than ever before, with a major expansion into nations of the Caribbean.
Chile's lucrative copper industry is beleaguered by daring attacks on trains carrying tons of copper through the desert.
The capture of Tren de Aragua members will test if Peru and Chile’s prisons can hold this dangerous gang.
Political conflict, institutional weakness, and ineffective legislation have helped wood theft and illegal logging proliferate in Chile.
