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Criminal Actors
Histories and profiles of organized crime groups, insurgencies, street gangs, vigilantes and the criminal actors that lead them.
Canindeyú, Paraguay
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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25 FEB 2021
Located on Paraguay’s border with Brazil, Canindeyú is a key criminal hub in the tri-border area.
Boquerón, Paraguay
COCAINE
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25 FEB 2021
Boquerón is an important part of regional cocaine trafficking routes due to its strategic location on Paraguay's border with Bolivia…
Alto Paraná, Paraguay
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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25 FEB 2021
Alto Paraná is home to some of Paraguay’s most dynamic criminal economies. Contraband goods continue to flood Brazil and Argentina…
Presidente Hayes, Paraguay
COCAINE
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25 FEB 2021
Presidente Hayes is one of three departments in Paraguay’s Chaco region, a vast and inhospitable forest area, where criminal organizations…
Amambay, Paraguay
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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25 FEB 2021
Amambay is at the heart of Paraguay’s most worrying organized crime trends: cocaine trafficking, marijuana production, and the rise of…
Misiones, Paraguay
CLAN ROTELA
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25 FEB 2021
Misiones does not play an important role in regional criminal dynamics, despite some marijuana trafficking in the department.
Asunción, Paraguay
CLAN ROTELA
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25 FEB 2021
Paraguay’s capital is a transit point for Bolivian cocaine shipped through the Tri-Border area, bound for Brazil. The Paraguay River,…
Cortés, Honduras
COCAINE
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16 FEB 2021
Cortés is a major organized crime hub. Vast quantities of drugs, arms, and contraband pass through the department’s busy Atlantic…
Copán, Honduras
COCAINE
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16 FEB 2021
In Copán – a major transit point for cocaine – drug trafficking groups collaborate with local authorities to smuggle narcotics over the department’s porous western border with Guatemala.
Intibucá, Honduras
GEOGRAPHIC PROFILES
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16 FEB 2021
Intibucá is not a major organized crime hub, though there is a notable gang presence along the department’s porous southern…
Valle, Honduras
COCAINE
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16 FEB 2021
Valle is an important transit point for cocaine being shipped from South America to Honduras, bound for other Central American…
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Ecuador's Police Being Assassinated in Record Numbers
ECUADOR
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16 MAY 2022
Ecuadorian gangs are taking another page from the playbook of crime groups in Mexico and Colombia, stepping up targeted killings of police officers in drug trafficking hotspots.
Will Soaring Arrests in El Salvador Overwhelm its Prisons?
BARRIO 18
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16 MAY 2022
As part of his sweeping gang crackdown, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has overseen the mass imprisonment of tens of thousands of people, potentially jeopardizing recent efforts to mitigate overcrowding…
Indigenous Communities in Rural Mexico Get No Help Against Constant Criminal Threats
HUMAN RIGHTS
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13 MAY 2022
The death of two indigenous leaders in Guerrero, Mexico, has again drawn attention to the government’s negligent protection of indigenous communities targeted by criminal groups throughout Mexico. In a…
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