Amazon Protection Pact Falls Short on Tackling Organized Crime
BRAZIL
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11 AUG 2023
Leaders in Belém failed to discuss measures to combat organized criminal groups perpetrating environmental crimes in the Amazon.
All About Illegal Mining
NEWS
BRAZIL
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8 AUG 2023
The tri-border where Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela meet has long served as a transit corridor for cocaine.
BRAZIL
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8 AUG 2023
Legal protections for the Amazon rainforest are complicated by different domestic laws and competing interests across countries.
BRAZIL
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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
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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
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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
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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.
CONTRABAND
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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