Colombia Expands Investigation of Gender Violence in Its Armed Conflict
AUC
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29 SEP 2023
Colombia’s transitional justice body has launched an in-depth study of how sexual and gender-based violence was used as a weapon of war.
All About Colombia
NEWS
COCAINE
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15 SEP 2023
Venezuela produces industrial quantities of urea, tons of which are stolen and smuggled into Colombia to feed cocaine labs.
COLOMBIA
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13 SEP 2023
Pablo Escobar's former hitman, Henry Holguín, explains how he exchanged killing for peacebuilding ahead of Colombia's Total Peace talks.
COCA
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12 SEP 2023
President Gustavo Petro is seeking a radical shift in the way Colombia fights cocaine trafficking. But he may quickly run out of time.
COLOMBIA
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5 SEP 2023
Negotiations between Colombia and armed groups do not demand ceasefire between feuding criminal factions, and civilians remain caught in the crossfire. …
COLOMBIA
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29 AUG 2023
Videos and pamphlets allegedly published by the Gaitanistas in Bogotá have made Venezuela's Tren de Aragua a target.
COLOMBIA
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24 AUG 2023
Colombia's President Petro announced his Total Peace plan 12 months ago. But how has his flagship policy played out?…
COLOMBIA
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22 AUG 2023
Hyperinflation is forcing Venezuelans to buy cheaper foodstuffs smuggled in from Colombia, putting the jobs of Venezuelan producers at risk.
COCAINE
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18 AUG 2023
The sentencing of notorious Colombian drug trafficker Chupeta marks the end of a lucrative and bloody career.
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.
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.
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InSight Crime Cited in New Colombia Drug Policy Plan
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8 SEP 2023
Investigators Victoria Dittmar and María Fernanda Ramírez discussed InSight Crime’s recent investigation of a massacre in Honduras’ only women’s prison in a Twitter Spaces event on…
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Human Trafficking Investigation Published in Leading Mexican Newspaper
1 SEP 2023
Leading Mexican media outlet El Universal featured our most recent investigation, “The Geography of Human Trafficking on the US-Mexico Border,” on the front page of its August 30…
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InSight Crime's Coverage of Ecuador Leads International Debate
25 AUG 2023
This week, Jeremy McDermott, co-director of InSight Crime, was interviewed by La Sexta, a Spanish television channel, about the situation of extreme violence and insecurity in Ecuador…
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