A week after InSight Crime revealed how the port of Santos in Brazil had become the “world trade center” for cocaine shipments, Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), one of the world’s largest container transport firms, slashed its operations at the port, due to fears of criminal penetration. MSC and numerous other shipping companies have been the repeated victims of drug cartels sneaking billions of dollars’ worth of cocaine onto their cargo containers. InSight Crime’s report on the port of Santos was picked up by numerous media outlets in Brazil, Russia, China, the Netherlands, Ireland and beyond. In its 2021 investigation, The Cocaine Pipeline to Europe, InSight Crime uncovered how drug traffickers infiltrate ports to access a staggering array of maritime routes and shift record amounts of cocaine to North America, Europe and beyond.
InSight Crime Bolsters Factchecking Defenses
InSight Crime recently held a writing and editing workshop for investigators, aimed at sourcing and factchecking discipline. InSight Crime, like many other media outlets, faces constant legal threats from subjects named in our stories, who seek to pressure us into taking copy down or shutting down investigations. No legal complaint presented against us has ever made it to court due to our rigorous sourcing and factchecking protocols.
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