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Panama's top trafficker and head of the Bagdad drug gang, Jorge Rubén Camargo Clarke, alias “Cholo Chorrillo," arrested in Costa Rica

News Bagdad

Safehouses, Bodyguards and Fake ID – Panama’s Top Drug Trafficker on the Run

by Chris Dalby 15 Feb 202213 Oct 2023

Containers being unloaded at the port of Rotterdam

News

At Nightfall, Cocaine Extractors Move Through Port of Rotterdam

by Chris Dalby 20 Jan 202213 Oct 2023

News Calor Calor

Panama’s Gang Wars Growing Worryingly Vicious

by Chris Dalby 3 Nov 202113 Oct 2023

A cargo ship enters the Panama Canal on the Atlantic side near Colon

News

Atlantic Entrance to Panama Canal Awash with Cocaine

by Saskia Wright and Anastasia Austin 10 Jun 202114 Jun 2021

Brief

Drones Rain Contraband on Panama Prison

by Alessandro Ford 26 Nov 202024 Apr 2023

Local gangs in Costa Rica and Panama stepped up in 2016

Analysis

GameChangers 2016: Gang Evolution in Central America’s Southern Gateway

by Mimi Yagoub 9 Jan 201724 Apr 2023

Map of gang presence and homicides in Panama

Brief

Mapped: Where Panama’s Gangs are Strongest, Homicides are Highest

by Mimi Yagoub 19 Oct 201624 Apr 2023

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