Join us on Tuesday, March 16, for a discussion with our co-director, Jeremy McDermott, alongside InSight Crime researcher, Alicia Flórez, and project coordinator, Ángela Olaya, who will take an in-depth look at organized crime in Argentina and its borders.
In El Salvador, sophisticated freight networks specialize in moving illicit drugs and contraband across Central American borders. Join us next Tuesday, March 23, for a discussion in which InSight Crime project coordinator Ángela Olaya Castro — as well as investigators Alicia Flórez and Victoria Dittmar — delve into El Salvador’s cross-border criminal dynamics. Moderated by […]
On May 4, InSight Crime will host a virtual event, featuring our Co-director Jeremy McDermott, and a panel of leading experts, Angelica Durán-Martínez, Sebastiana Barráez and Javier Mayorca, to discuss the findings of our latest investigation, "The Cocaine Revolution in Venezuela."
InSight Crime and the Center for Latin American & Latino Studies at American University are holding a virtual and in-person conference to discuss findings from our joint investigation into IUU fishing in Latin America and the Caribbean.
InSight Crime will host a virtual event featuring Co-director Jeremy McDermott and a panel of leading experts to discuss the findings of our latest investigation. No registration is required.
Watch the Event Recording (Spanish) Livestreamed via YouTube and Facebook in Spanish - No registration required The evolution of organized crime in Venezuela has reached extreme levels. The country is now a hybrid state, where the line between governance and criminality is barely perceptible. President Nicolás Maduro has promised a presidential election in 2024. Ahead of […]
For more than a decade, Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has used his alliances with criminal groups to increase his control and consolidate his power.
We invite you to join a virtual panel where InSight Crime co-director Jeremy McDermott, accompanied by political scientist Paola Bautista de Alemán, political consultant Oswaldo Ramírez, and journalist Sebastiana Barráez, will discuss the future of Venezuela's criminal landscape.
Join us to explore how systemic corruption, chronic neglect, and the rise of criminal gangs have reshaped Durán's landscape.
InSight Crimes’ Camila Aristizábal will host a discussion with Defiende Venezuela’s Ezequiel Monsalve on one of the most pressing regional issues of the day – documenting and covering human rights abuses perpetrated by the increasingly authoritarian Venezuelan state.
To accompany the launch of our new investigation, “ehind Bars, Beyond Control: The Fall of Ecuador’s Prisons and the Rise of Its Mafias,” InSight Crime is holding a virtual event on December 4. Join us and our panel of experts as we discuss the failed policies, systemic corruption, and criminal dynamics that have shaped one what has become one of the biggest security challenges facing the region today.
InSight Crime co-directors Steven Dudley and Jeremy McDermott will join some of our most experienced field investigators for a discussion of the Criminal GameChangers annual series. The conversation will highlight what we learned from our on-the-ground research of organized crime.
Ecuadorians will soon vote for a new president almost exactly one year after the military was deployed to the streets and the prisons in a desperate attempt to tackle the worst security crisis in the country’s history. The results of the military crackdown have been mixed at best. But do any of the current candidates have an alternative vision?
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