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Colombia Expands Investigation of Gender Violence in Its Armed Conflict

AUC / 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.

COCAINE / 15 SEP 2023

Venezuela produces industrial quantities of urea, tons of which are stolen and smuggled into Colombia to feed cocaine labs.

COLOMBIA / 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 / 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 / 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 / 29 AUG 2023

Videos and pamphlets allegedly published by the Gaitanistas in Bogotá have made Venezuela's Tren de Aragua a target.

COLOMBIA / 24 AUG 2023

Colombia's President Petro announced his Total Peace plan 12 months ago. But how has his flagship policy played out?…

COLOMBIA / 22 AUG 2023

Hyperinflation is forcing Venezuelans to buy cheaper foodstuffs smuggled in from Colombia, putting the jobs of Venezuelan producers at risk.

COCAINE / 18 AUG 2023

The sentencing of notorious Colombian drug trafficker Chupeta marks the end of a lucrative and bloody career.

BRAZIL / 11 AUG 2023

Leaders in Belém failed to discuss measures to combat organized criminal groups perpetrating environmental crimes in the Amazon.

BRAZIL / 8 AUG 2023

The tri-border where Colombia, Brazil, and Venezuela meet has long served as a transit corridor for cocaine.

BRAZIL / 8 AUG 2023

Legal protections for the Amazon rainforest are complicated by different domestic laws and competing interests across countries.

BRAZIL / 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 Contributes Expertise Across the Board 

22 SEP 2023

This week InSight Crime investigators Sara García and María Fernanda Ramírez led a discussion of the challenges posed by Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s “Total Peace” plan within urban contexts. The…

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InSight Crime Cited in New Colombia Drug Policy Plan

15 SEP 2023

InSight Crime’s work on emerging coca cultivation in Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela was cited in the Colombian government’s…

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InSight Crime Discusses Honduran Women's Prison Investigation

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…