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The Drug Lord and the Governor's Daughter - Quadruple Homicide in Paraguay
ELITES AND CRIME
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20 OCT 2021
The killing of four young people in Paraguay’s border city of Pedro Juan Caballero has led back to an imprisoned man who was once its most-wanted drug trafficker, revealing systemic…
CYBERCRIME
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20 OCT 2021
A month after El Salvador’s government introduced Bitcoin as a national currency, an illegal corner of the new economy has…
ELITES AND CRIME
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19 OCT 2021
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro's aggressive reaction to the extradition of accused money launderer and ally Álex Saab – who appeared…
HAITI
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18 OCT 2021
The abduction of 17 American and Canadian citizens in Haiti will bring a new level of attention to the country’s…
MEXICO
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18 OCT 2021
Gunmen have gone on a shooting spree of police surveillance cameras in the Mexican city of Culiacán – attacks that…
CARTEL DE JALISCO
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15 OCT 2021
Mexican criminal groups have hit on a new way to recruit vulnerable young people into their ranks: reaching out to…
CARIBBEAN
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15 OCT 2021
Merchants travelling to Trinidad and Tobago, fishing vessels, even the occasional tourist – all are tempting targets for pirates off…
COCAINE
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14 OCT 2021
The governor of Colombia's central department of Meta has survived two back-to-back assassination attempts, a rare case of a continued…
BRAZIL
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14 OCT 2021
For some time now, research has highlighted the significant volume of illegal logging in the Brazilian timber market and its…
EXTORTION
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13 OCT 2021
A new report claims the success rate of phone extortion is dropping in Mexico, but the fluid nature of this…
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
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12 OCT 2021
Six years after investigators in Peru took down a massive timber trafficking operation that shipped millions of dollars’ worth of…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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12 OCT 2021
Arms trafficking in Mexico has turned to digital mediums that offer both broad visibility and anonymity to an ever-increasing flow…
CHINA AND CRIME
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11 OCT 2021
Contraband Chinese cigarettes are pouring into Latin America, infiltrating old smuggling routes and threatening longstanding criminal empires.
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