InSight Crime's 2022 Homicide Round-Up
ARGENTINA
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8 FEB 2023
InSight Crime's 2022 Homicide Round-Up covers more countries than ever before, with a major expansion into nations of the Caribbean.
All About Puerto Rico
NEWS
HAITI
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28 NOV 2022
Human smugglers are leaving Haitian migrants stranded on desert islands in the channel between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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24 AUG 2022
A new rule in the United States seeks to stem the flow of ghost guns, bought in parts online and assembled at home, to Latin America.
CARIBBEAN
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27 JUL 2022
Poorly equipped human smugglers have cost the lives of 17 Haitian migrants after their boat capsized near the Bahamas.
CARIBBEAN
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18 FEB 2022
Dominican authorities recently intercepted a cocaine-laden speedboat destined for Puerto Rico – the latest in a series of maritime seizures showing a flourishing drug trade between the Dominican Republic and…
ARGENTINA
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1 FEB 2022
In 2021, most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean experienced a marked increase in murders. Resurgent violence was to be expected after some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns…
BRAZIL
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15 DEC 2021
A recent study of credit card cloning around the world revealed some startling disparities in the risks customers face across Latin America and the price of buying this stolen information.
PRISONS
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20 SEP 2021
A major operation against one of Puerto Rico's foremost criminal gangs has revealed how this group's control of prisons helped to create a method of criminal governance that swept the…
BOLIVIA
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13 AUG 2021
The US Coast Guard unloaded 27 tons of cocaine after a three-month operation in the Pacific and Caribbean, a massive haul that underscores maritime drug flows and cocaine production remain…
CARIBBEAN
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26 APR 2021
Puerto Rico is seeing a surge in cocaine seizures, indicating that drug flows are being reactivated after months of dormancy amid pandemic lockdowns and that the island is on track…
BRAZIL
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20 FEB 2021
Drug traffickers engage in a creative game of hide and seek with coast guards and other security forces that board their ships at sea.
ARGENTINA
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29 JAN 2021
While unrest gripped much of Latin America in 2019, it was the coronavirus that took center stage and ripped through the region in 2020, upending everything from commercial trade to…
CARIBBEAN
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5 OCT 2020
A patrol ship in the Dutch Caribbean has caught a ton of cocaine in a rapid series of seizures, displaying how regularly drug shipments traverse the area on their way…
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