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Amazon Protection Pact Falls Short on Tackling Organized Crime 

BRAZIL / 11 AUG 2023

Leaders in Belém failed to discuss measures to combat organized criminal groups perpetrating environmental crimes in the Amazon.

BRAZIL / 8 AUG 2023

The tri-border where Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela meet has long served as a transit corridor for cocaine.

BRAZIL / 8 AUG 2023

Legal protections for the Amazon rainforest are complicated by different domestic laws and competing interests across countries.

BRAZIL / 8 AUG 2023

Deep in the vast jungle of the Amazon, critical primary forests are being razed to mine gold, grow coca, and harvest timber.

BRAZIL / 8 AUG 2023

Illegal mining is by far the most widespread and insidious environmental crime occurring in the Amazon’s tri-border regions.

ARMS TRAFFICKING / 1 AUG 2023

An annual review of Brazil's security landscape paints a highly pessimistic outlook for the country's criminal woes.

ELITES AND CRIME / 12 JUL 2023

Venezuela's Presidents Chávez and Maduro, to secure long-term power, ensured the country's criminal groups would answer to them.

CONTRABAND / 6 JUL 2023

Illegal mining in Venezuela's Yapacana National Park has produced a parallel contraband economy to grow. And state actors know all about it.

GOLD / 5 JUL 2023

Illegal mining is one of Venezuela's most well-entrenched criminal economies. Are there any legal solutions to the ecocide it causes?…

BRAZIL / 3 JUL 2023

Brazil’s Federal Police detected no new illegal mines on Yanomami territory, but there remain barriers to ending illegal mining in the area. …

COLOMBIA / 9 JUN 2023

Colombia's biggest gold mine has come under attack from illegal miners. Experts blame the Gaitanistas, Colombia's foremost crime group.

BRAZIL / 26 MAY 2023

The PCC appears to be providing support to illegal miners in the Yanomami territory in Brazil's northern state of Roraima.

COLOMBIA / 24 MAR 2023

The end of a ceasefire with Colombia's largest criminal group, the AGC, is a serious body blow to hopes for peace.

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