In Sinaloa, Mexico, a Deadly Mix of Synthetic Drugs and Forced Disappearances
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27 OCT 2022
In Sinaloa, Mexico, the uptick in forced disappearances is linked to one dynamic more than any other: synthetic drugs.
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HAITI
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19 SEP 2022
Haiti prisons are overcrowded and judicial system failing, leading to prisoners dying of starvation.
BRAZIL
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5 SEP 2022
Brazil's city of Rio de Janeiro is suffering a major security crisis, as gender and religion affect organized crime in the city.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
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11 AUG 2022
A network which sexually trafficked Colombian and Venezuelan women to the Dominican Republic has been dismantled.
EXTRADITION
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8 AUG 2022
A US request has led Guatemala to dismantle a prolific human smuggling ring that smuggled migrants to the United States.
HUMAN RIGHTS
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29 JUN 2022
As many as 50 migrants have been found dead inside a truck 150 miles north of the US-Mexico border.
CARIBBEAN
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3 JUN 2022
Gangs in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince are rounding up homeless and at-risk teens, who are increasingly being used as foot soldiers in gang wars that have forced schools to…
HUMAN RIGHTS
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13 MAY 2022
The death of two indigenous leaders in Guerrero, Mexico, has again drawn attention to the government’s negligent protection of indigenous communities targeted by criminal groups throughout Mexico. In a…
AUC
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13 APR 2022
At the start of 2010, the former Colombian paramilitary leader Hernán Giraldo Serna was completing his sentence for drug trafficking in a US prison.
AUC
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13 APR 2022
It was 7:00 at night. Carolina was lying in bed and turned on the TV just as a news reporter announced: “One of the most bloodthirsty paramilitary leaders of the…
HUMAN RIGHTS
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28 JAN 2022
A number of media workers in Mexico have been shot and killed, stabbed to death and ambushed in armed attacks to start 2022, as authorities continue to point the finger…
HUMAN RIGHTS
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17 JAN 2022
Reported kidnappings have decreased significantly in Mexico, but in recent years, at least one out of every 10 kidnapping victims has been a migrant trying to reach the United States,…
BRAZIL
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2 NOV 2021
Counterfeit cigarettes may appear harmless, but the illicit tobacco trade often spurs other criminal activities – with the latest case being the use of slave labor by a ring that…
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