Oficina de Envigado
The Oficina de Envigado has evolved from a debt collection agency for Pablo Escobar to a mafia federation that regulates almost all criminal activity in Medellín.
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COLOMBIA
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10 MAR 2021
The central Colombian department of Antioquia has been the scene of four massacres over the first two months of 2021,…
COLOMBIA
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4 NOV 2019
Authorities in Colombia have captured a crime boss who began as a gang leader on Medellin's outskirts and came to…
COLOMBIA
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4 OCT 2019
The tense calm that had persisted for six years in the town of Bello, near Medellín in Colombia, has been…
CHILE
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2 SEP 2019
A Colombian gang leader has been accused of operating a "gota a gota" loansharking network in Chile -- evidence that…
COCAINE
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11 JUN 2019
Members of some of Colombia’s most notorious crime organizations teamed up to traffic about three tons of cocaine, revealing a…
COLOMBIA
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24 MAY 2019
Authorities in Colombia have recently arrested three leaders of the Oficina de Envigado, a mafia that began under Pablo Escobar…
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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…
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20 NOV 2020
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…
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InSight Crime – From Uncovering Organized Crime to Finding What Works
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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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InSight Crime – Ten Years of Investigating Organized Crime in the Americas
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In early 2009, Steven Dudley was in Medellín, Colombia. His assignment: speak to a jailed paramilitary leader in the Itagui prison, just south of the city. Following his interview inside…
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