How Criminal Groups Helped Fill Venezuela's Post-Chávez Void
ELITES AND CRIME
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12 JUL 2023
Venezuela's Presidents Chávez and Maduro, to secure long-term power, ensured the country's criminal groups would answer to them.
All About FARC
INVESTIGATIONS
ELITES AND CRIME
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12 JUL 2023
The FBL were a useful criminal ally to Maduro's regime in Venezuela. They were granted favors, political power, and impunity, before seeing a precipitous downfall.
COLOMBIA
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6 JUN 2023
A new study has outlined how the ethnicity and socio-economic background of children are key factors in their forced recruitment in Colombia.
ELN
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16 FEB 2023
InSight Crime has developed its own methodology to rank Venezuela's organized crime groups. Here, we present the strongest.
COCAINE
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3 FEB 2023
Colombia's negotiations with a range of criminal groups, as part of the Total Peace plan, will be complicated by record cocaine seizures.
COLOMBIA
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3 OCT 2022
One of the ELN's most infamous leader, alias Pablito, has been crucial in helping the Colombian guerrilla group move its operations to Venezuela.
COLOMBIA
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3 OCT 2022
Colombian guerrillas evolved from seeing Venezuela as a safe place to retreat to seeing it as a full-blown expansion of their criminal activities.
COLOMBIA
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3 OCT 2022
While now comfortably established in two countries, the ELN have a chance to return to the negotiating table, according to President Gustavo Petro's "Total Peace" plan.
COLOMBIA
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3 OCT 2022
Colombian rebels had long been welcome in Venezuela but now, they have arrived in force, bringing conflict with them.
COLOMBIA
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6 SEP 2022
Will the killing of seven police officers allegedly by ex-FARC Mafia derail Gustavo Petro's 'Total Peace' plan?…
COLOMBIA
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4 AUG 2022
Alejandra Miller of Colombia’s Truth Commission explained why women and LGBTIQ+ persons were disproportionately affected by the armed conflict.
COLOMBIA
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5 JUL 2022
Up to seven commanders belonging to the dissident FARC have been killed in Colombia and Venezuela in the last year. Why?…
COLOMBIA
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4 JUL 2022
While the death of Iván Márquez is yet to be confirmed, his passing would mark a major turning point in Colombia’s security panorama.
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InSight Crime Contributes Expertise Across the Board
22 SEP 2023
This week InSight Crime investigators Sara García and María Fernanda Ramírez led a discussion of the challenges posed by Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s “Total Peace” plan within urban contexts. The…
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InSight Crime Cited in New Colombia Drug Policy Plan
15 SEP 2023
InSight Crime’s work on emerging coca cultivation in Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela was cited in the Colombian government’s…
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InSight Crime Discusses Honduran Women's Prison Investigation
8 SEP 2023
Investigators Victoria Dittmar and María Fernanda Ramírez discussed InSight Crime’s recent investigation of a massacre in Honduras’ only women’s prison in a Twitter Spaces event on…
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Human Trafficking Investigation Published in Leading Mexican Newspaper
1 SEP 2023
Leading Mexican media outlet El Universal featured our most recent investigation, “The Geography of Human Trafficking on the US-Mexico Border,” on the front page of its August 30…
THE ORGANIZATION
InSight Crime's Coverage of Ecuador Leads International Debate
25 AUG 2023
This week, Jeremy McDermott, co-director of InSight Crime, was interviewed by La Sexta, a Spanish television channel, about the situation of extreme violence and insecurity in Ecuador…
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