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Costa Rica's Limón Province Becomes Murder and Drug Trafficking Center
COCAINE
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23 MAY 2022
Killings linked to drug trafficking disputes are soaring in Costa Rica’s Caribbean province of Limón, as surging cocaine flows and legacies of gang violence continue to undermine stability in one…
COLOMBIA
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23 MAY 2022
A reconfiguration of the groups that control micro-trafficking in Colombia’s capital city is responsible for the series of macabre homicides…
ELITES AND CRIME
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20 MAY 2022
Political assassinations, record drug seizures, gang wars – an avalanche of criminal concerns in Paraguay are coalescing around the city…
DRUG POLICY
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20 MAY 2022
A spate of gang-related killings has caused panic in a marginalized area of Uruguay’s capital of Montevideo, raising debate about…
G9
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20 MAY 2022
Less than a week after a vicious 12-day gang war rocked the northern communes of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, a…
EL SALVADOR
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19 MAY 2022
A report by El Faro has revealed the initial fractures in the negotiated pact between the El Salvadoran government and…
COCAINE
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19 MAY 2022
Europe’s increasing demand for cocaine means the drug is now being producing in Europe by local criminals with help of…
BELTRAN LEYVA ORG
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19 MAY 2022
Cocaine processing has taken root on European soil, Mexican and Dutch synthetic drug traffickers have partnered up, and a new…
ELITES AND CRIME
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18 MAY 2022
Guatemala has reappointed Attorney General Consuelo Porras for a second term despite her track record as a shield for top…
COCAINE
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18 MAY 2022
Early investigations indicate the CJNG is striking partnerships with drug rings in Guatemala that receive shipments of cocaine from Colombia…
COCAINE
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17 MAY 2022
Cocaine found on Australia’s Eastern coast has perplexed authorities due to the sophisticated methods apparently used to smuggle it from…
COCA
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17 MAY 2022
A government proposal for Peru to purchase all the country’s coca production has generated fierce debate, but experts question whether…
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…
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