Security Force Corruption Scandal Rocks Brazil’s Biggest Amazon State
The dismissal of top security officials in the Brazilian state of Amazonas suggests corruption could complicate Lula’s battle to save Amazon.
Leaders in Belém failed to discuss measures to combat organized criminal groups perpetrating environmental crimes in the Amazon.
The tri-border where Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela meet has long served as a transit corridor for cocaine.
Legal protections for the Amazon rainforest are complicated by different domestic laws and competing interests across countries.
Deep in the vast jungle of the Amazon, critical primary forests are being razed to mine gold, grow coca, and harvest timber.
Illegal mining is by far the most widespread and insidious environmental crime occurring in the Amazon’s tri-border regions.
In the Amazon’s tri-border areas, illegal logging is expanding, due to the low cost of land, and few controls on deforestation.
An annual review of Brazil's security landscape paints a highly pessimistic outlook for the country's criminal woes.
On paper, Latin American governments are fighting back against the shark fin trade. In reality, the massacre continues.
Brazil’s Federal Police detected no new illegal mines on Yanomami territory, but there remain barriers to ending illegal mining in the area. …
Acts of violence directly targeting government officials are more common in Mexico and Brazil than in other parts of the world.
Latin America's constantly growing prison population has seen tens of thousands of children growing up without their parents, with dire consequences.
From Colima to Caracas, some parts of Latin America have stubbornly high homicide rates, far higher than the rest of their country.