El Salvador Police Reports Contradict Bukele's Triumphalism
BARRIO 18
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22 SEP 2023
Confidential police reports reveal that the three main gangs operating in El Salvador remain a real threat.
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NEWS
BARRIO 18
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22 SEP 2023
A close look at El Salvador's Police Information System, which is used to collect and analyze information on criminals in the country.
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.
GULF CARTEL
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7 SEP 2023
Killings of police officers in Mexico’s northern state of Nuevo León have increased 143% between 2019 and 2022 amid a broader uptick in homicides, which overlaps with the Northeast Cartel’s…
ECUADOR
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5 SEP 2023
The state of Ecuador’s security institutions and their inability to halt runaway criminal violence has been a central theme of the country’s ongoing presidential campaign. But facing underfunding and corruption,…
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. …
MONEY LAUNDERING
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4 SEP 2023
Money laundering cases tied to drug trafficking in Uruguay have almost doubled in the past five years, according to a new government report, raising concerns that criminal organizations are taking…
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?…
ECUADOR
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21 AUG 2023
In the second round of Ecuador's presidential race, both candidates favor using social measures to address the country's security crisis.
ECUADOR
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18 AUG 2023
InSight Crime spoke with Brotherton to learn more about the history of gang legalization in Ecuador and examine its impact on the current security situation.
COCAINE
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14 AUG 2023
Mounting homicides and increased drug trafficking have raised concerns about organized crime in Uruguay. Recent studies presented to the Ministry of the Interior came to mixed conclusions: Uruguay is unlikely…
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.
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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…
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