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The persistent robbery, extortion, assault and even murder of shrimp farm workers by armed gangs in Ecuador has led the…
Organized crime had to tighten its belt in 2020, and pickings remain lean as world economies contract and movement is…
Venezuela has long been known as a strategic rearguard for Colombia guerrilla groups. Yet 2020 saw the acceleration of a…
As COVID-19 threatened the well-being of the populations they depend on for criminal income, it was largely in the interest…
A rush of drug plane traffic from South America, coupled with traffickers smuggling large cocaine shipments after coronavirus border restrictions…
As another Christmas passes us by, drug traffickers have been embracing the season to be jolly with open arms once…
In a region where 50 percent of the population already makes its living in the informal market, it was perhaps…
President-elect Joe Biden has a chance to reset the table on US-Latin American relations, but the Donald Trump administration’s schizophrenic,…
Welcome to InSight Crime’s Criminal GameChangers 2020, where we highlight the most important trends in organized crime in the Americas over the course of…
Lawmakers in Mexico have passed a new law that limits the power and restricts the operations of foreign law enforcement…
A recent police raid in the eastern part of El Salvador, in which a mayor and several municipal and judicial…
As El Salvador battles widespread allegations of fraud during the coronavirus pandemic, its most senior police official is now accused…
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