El Salvador's police chief has denied the country's murder rate is rising and accused the media of misleading reporting, raising questions as to why he is downplaying the homicide spike…
Criminal agendas could represent a critical "blind spot" in attempts to resolve armed conflicts in Latin America, capable of sabotaging negotiations and derailing entire peace processes. Taking these agendas into…
The release of recordings and documents purporting to show how the El Salvador government paid off gang leaders to secure the country's gang truce is being wielded as a political…
Extortion fees demanded by gangs from El Salvador's bus companies have doubled in the past year to $3 million per month, another sign of the problems inherent in the country's…
El Salvador's overall 2013 homicide rate fell slightly in comparison to 2012, but the steady rise of recent months has continued in 2014, undermining the gains made as a result…
The tenuous "gang truce" in El Salvador, in place since March 2012, does not fit into a classic model of peace negotiations between armed groups. Even so, any negotiation involving…
Homicide levels, and more recently, clandestine mass graves, are driving the debate about the success or failure of the gang truce in El Salvador, but they are also obscuring…
We can already identify some of the trends that are likely to mark the evolution of organized crime in 2014. One is the issue of criminal migration, as organized crime…
Police in El Salvador say the country's gangs are "mutating" and becoming more deeply involved in drug trafficking, a development that adds to fears the gangs have used the truce…
Depending on who you ask, the nearly two-year old truce between El Salvador's two largest gangs is either a) collapsed; b) nearly collapsed; c) in transition; d) steady. El Faro…
Authorities in El Salvador have recovered 19 bodies from secret graves, adding weight to fears that a drop in murders following the country's gang truce was partly due to…
After a two decade long hiatus, gang truces are back in vogue in the Americas. Very generally, truces usually include negotiations and pacts intended to bring about an end to…
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InSight Crime is extending its investigation into the cocaine pipeline to Europe, and tracking the growing connections between Latin American drug traffickers and European criminal organizations. This led us to…
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