Contraband

News Counterfeit

How Counterfeit Dollars Have Overrun Venezuela

by Venezuela Investigation Unit 11 Oct 202319 Oct 2023

Contraband potatoes being sold in Caracas, Venezuela.

News

Venezuela’s Reliance on Contraband Food Risks Industry Collapse

by Venezuela Investigative Unit 22 Aug 202313 Oct 2023

News Elites and Crime

Paraguay’s New Cabinet Shadowed by Criminal Ties

by Christopher Newton 15 Aug 202313 Oct 2023

Militares venezolanos patrullan un río en Venezuela

In Venezuela, Contraband Networks Supply Rampant Wildcat Mining

by Venezuela Investigative Unit 6 Jul 202313 Oct 2023

Investigations Guatemala

Citizen Prosperity: Wild Card Meets Status Quo

by Alex Papadovassilakis and Edgar Gutiérrez 23 Jun 202313 Oct 2023

Investigations Guatemala

The Road to 2023: A Peek Into Guatemala’s Criminal Past

by Steven Dudley 21 Jun 202313 Oct 2023

Contraband is rife across the Suriname and French Guyana border.

Europe’s Weakest Border? Smuggling Between Suriname and French Guiana

by Douwe den Held 16 May 202313 Oct 2023

A crane at a scrap metal trash site in Venezuela

How Scrap Metal Became a Criminal Enterprise in Venezuela

by Venezuela Investigative Unit 15 May 202313 Oct 2023

Newly elected Santiago Peña with mentor, ex-President Horacio Cartes

Paraguay Election Dims Chances of Corruption Crackdown

by Christopher Newton 5 May 202313 Oct 2023

Black market gasoline salesemen hocking contraband fuel in Zulia, Venezuela

Inside the Evaporating Black Market for Gasoline in Zulia, Venezuela

by Venezuela Investigative Unit 12 Apr 202313 Oct 2023

Contraband goods found on a bus in Bolivia

News Contraband

Bolivia Passenger Buses Carry Contraband Rather Than People

by Sean Doherty 21 Feb 202313 Oct 2023

Masked robbers, wearing bulletproof vests, boarding a train and quickly transferring copper cathodes onto a truck next to the train

Chile’s Copper Industry Under Siege as Robbers Attack Ports and Trains

by Henry Shuldiner 19 Jan 202313 Oct 2023

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