21/07/2019 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Analisis - Peru: Informe revela control de redes criminales en industria maderera de Perú
Un nuevo estudio que ofrece un análisis detallado de la industria maderera en Perú pone al descubierto los alarmantes grados de ilegalidad que han contaminado la cadena de suministro maderero del país y la constante evolución de las redes de tráfico.
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21/06/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bolivia - Alleged Red Command Captures in Bolivia Point to Group’s Likely Expansion
Police in Bolivia have captured three alleged members of one of Brazil’s most powerful criminal groups after a brazen armed assault on a military base, raising urgent questions about why the Brazilian mafia is amassing arms in the border region.
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04/08/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Reports Show Ex-FARC Criminal Cells Taking Shape Around Colombia
Colombia's FARC guerrillas are just weeks away from completing their demobilization, but reports of arms thefts, drug trafficking, forced recruitment and murders linked to FARC dissidents show how a new underworld is already taking shape in their wake.
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08/07/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Rights Groups Plea for International Criminal Court Assessment of Coahuila, Mexico Case
Human rights organizations in Mexico are calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged crimes against humanity in the state of Coahuila, once again raising questions over the court's jurisdiction in cases of criminal violence and the impunity that surrounds it.
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22/05/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia Court Ruling Spells Trouble for FARC Peace Process
A ruling by Colombia's Constitutional Court has created an opportunity for opponents of the country's peace process with the FARC to sabotage the implementation of the accords, potentially fueling dissent among the guerrilla ranks as well as violence and uncertainty in the underworld.
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07/02/2017 | Transparencia
Mexico - ¨Corruptionary¨Provides a Guide to Mexico's Vocabulary of Corruption
Activists in Mexico have created the world's first "Corruptionary," a wry collection of Mexican lexicon regarding graft that carries a serious message about just how deeply ingrained corruption and crime have become in Mexican society.
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02/02/2017 | Transparencia
'Corruptionary' Provides a Guide to Mexico's Vocabulary of Corruption
Activists in Mexico have created the world's first "Corruptionary," a wry collection of Mexican lexicon regarding graft that carries a serious message about just how deeply ingrained corruption and crime have become in Mexican society.
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12/11/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Impact of Colombia's Cocaine Boom Hits the US: DEA
Cocaine use and availability is on the rise in the United States for the first time in nearly a decade, according to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), as the production boom in Colombia begins to be felt on US streets.
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24/06/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Is the Global Cocaine Trade in Decline?
The latest United Nations drug report poses a question with major implications for Latin American organized crime: is the global cocaine market shrinking?
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07/02/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'Narco-tacos': US Manifestation of Spreading Narcoculture
A Los Angeles restaurant has launched a line of drug lord themed Mexican food in the latest example of how narcoculture, like Latin American organized crime, is taking root north of the border.
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17/01/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The 'Last Capo' of Medellin and Evolution of the 'Oficina'
Colombia has heralded the capture of the "last great capo" of Medellin mafia the "Oficina de Envigado," but such labels no longer match the reality of an evolved criminal network that remains a crucial part of the Colombian underworld.
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19/12/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Seizure, a Lawsuit and Illegal Gold from Peru
In January 2014, InSight Crime reported on a record seizure of suspected illegal gold in Peru. Since then, that case has snowballed; marking a turning point in the modus operandi of illegal gold exports, uncovering what authorities believe is a major criminal network, and threatening to land InSight Crime in court.
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23/09/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia: From Coca Cultivation to Gold Mining and Back
It was one of the few successful drug crop substitutions in Colombia’s history -- albeit one led by armed groups and an underground economy. But now, the migration from coca cultivation to illegal gold mining in the north of the country has been thrown into reverse, and regions where cocaine production was in decline are witnessing a coca revival.
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21/06/2015 | Transparencia
The 3 Caudillos: the FIFA Heads Who Corrupted Soccer in the Americas
Fourteen names appeared in the indictment that accompanied the dramatic downfall of the heads of global football. All fourteen were from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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16/04/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The 'White Charcoal' Trial and the Evolution of Argentina's Drug Trade
Argentina is preparing for one of the biggest drug trafficking trials in its history, and the tangled web of corruption, business and soccer that has already been revealed is proof of just how sophisticated the Argentine drug trade has become.
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05/04/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Vigilante Justice Popular Across Latin America: Report
A recent study shows an alarmingly high support for vigilante justice in numerous countries in the Americas, a phenomenon linked to a lack of faith in often corrupt and inefficient state institutions, as well as other social and cultural factors.
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19/11/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Contraband Politics Took Over Northeast Colombia
A police raid on a luxury mansion in Brazil in late October brought the era of Marquitos and Kiko crashing down: the gangster and the politician who together built a gasoline smuggling empire that co-opted the Colombian state of La Guajira. But while both are now facing the prospect of lengthy prison sentences, the political-criminal nexus they leave behind is far from finished.
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25/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Latin America Stumbles On Road To Health-Based Drug Policies
A consensus has been building in Latin America that drug use should be treated as a health and not a criminal issue. But has this rhetoric become an on-the-ground reality?
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24/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US Treasury Latest to Set Sights on Honduras' Valles Drug Clan
The US Treasury has added the Valles crime clan to its "Kingpin List," the latest move in an unprecedented campaign against what is arguably Honduras' premier drug trafficking organization.
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08/06/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Messi Scandal: From Charity Soccer to Money Laundering Accusations
Come the start of the World Cup in June, soccer fans in Argentina will be investing their hopes and dreams in the astonishing talents of their iconic striker Lionel Messi, who over the last decade has broken countless records and opposition defenses alike. But hanging over Messi's head is an ongoing scandal that has seen his name mentioned alongside infamous drug lords and multi-million dollar money laundering schemes.
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20/12/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Children, Sex and Gangs in Medellin
In the slums of Medellin, Colombia, adolescent girls have become the spoils of war and merchandise for criminal gangs; they are raped, abused, trafficked and even have their virginities auctioned off to the highest bidder.
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03/12/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
lden Opportunity as Colombia Peace Talks Turn to Drug Trade
Peace talks between the FARC guerrillas and the Colombian government have turned to the issue of drug trafficking, representing a historic opportunity to tackle the illegal narcotics trade, although one fraught with obstacles to both striking and implementing an agreement.
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29/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
DEA Report Shows US Drug Market Changing
The US Drug Enforcement Administration's annual report charts evolving market forces in the supply and demand of narcotics, with cocaine imports to the United States falling even as Mexican cartels switch operations towards trafficking more methamphetamine and heroin.
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21/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia's Wild West: Gold, Prostitutes and Urabeños
Three years ago, Buritica was a sleepy farming village tucked away in the mountains of Antioquia in northwest Colombia. Now, it is a gold rush frontier town replete with deathtrap mines, ramshackle huts, prostitutes, drugs, and narco-paramilitaries -- a metamorphosis that could become ever more common as Colombia's illegal gold miners, who have their roots in the country's civil conflict, seek new opportunities.
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06/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pushing Around the Problem: Colombia's 'War' on Micro-trafficking
Eight months after the opening salvos in Colombia's new war against micro-trafficking, residents in affected areas say the results have been an explosion in open drug use outside their homes, schools and businesses, while drug sales remain unaffected. The story is, in many ways, illustrative of the challenges ahead for much of the region as it faces down increasing local drug consumption.
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06/11/2013 | Transparencia
Corruption in El Salvador: Top Police Officials Used 'Fake' Qualifications
El Salvador authorities knew 15 top police officials had allegedly used false qualifications to move up to career ladder but did nothing about it, highlighting the entrenched corruption and impunity that facilitates organized crime.
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01/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Brazil's New Security Policies Raise Old Questions
A new report examines aggressive attempts by Brazil's government to secure the country's borders by building regional alliances, the results of which have echoed the successes, failures, and regional tensions seen in US-led "war on drugs" security policies.
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04/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican Cartels Recruiting US Soldiers
Drug cartels in Mexico are recruiting US soldiers as hitmen, illustrating both the all too common overlap between organized crime and security forces, and the ongoing militarization of the drug trade.
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28/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
ELN Deepen Involvement in Illegal Mining
Documents seized by the Colombian police suggest that the ELN are involved in the illegal mining trade in a more sophisticated way, with the guerrillas taking a share of the profits and even hoarding their own gold reserves.
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24/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Saga of Narco-Playboy Shows Weakness of Colombia's Prison System
The trail of violence and corruption blazed through Colombia's prison system by a now-extradited drug trafficker displays the weaknesses of an institution that is trapped between bullets and bribes, and could now be facing dissolution.
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14/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Nomad Victims: Intra-urban Displacement in Medellin
For some, it is their association with an enemy gang. For others, it is their community work. Some flee sexual abuse, forced recruitment, or extortion. But ultimately, every one of the thousands of people displaced within Medellin faces the same grim choice: Lose your house, job, and community -- or lose your life.
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02/06/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Growing Local Drug Market Fuels Colombia's Underworld
Police say that one fifth of the cocaine produced in Colombia is now sold on the domestic market, highlighting what provoked Colombia's government to declare "total war" on an increasingly important source of criminal revenue -- micro-trafficking.
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26/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Paraguay and Brazil Launch Joint Anti-Marijuana Operation
Security forces from Paraguay and Brazil have launched a new joint operation targeting marijuana production and trafficking in their mutual border region, in a sign of cooperation between two countries that have had an occasionally strained relationship.
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26/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Maduro to Create Armed 'Workers Militias' in Venezuela
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro has announced plans to create armed "workers militias," in what would be a dramatic expansion of pro-government militias at a time of political instability and rising insecurity.
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25/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
OAS Report Charts Drug Policy Scenarios
The newly published OAS report "Drugs in the Americas" not only marks a step towards deepening the debate on global drug policy, it also offers a glimpse of what effects a drug war paradigm shift could have on organized crime.
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19/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Why Has The Italian Mafia Returned to Colombia?
A spate of recent arrests suggests the Italian mafia may be making a comeback in Colombia, where the fractured criminal landscape makes it easier for them to exert control over the drug trade.
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26/04/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Ecuador Bulk Cash Smuggling Reflects New Laundering Trend
Ecuador has witnessed a dramatic rise in bulk cash smuggling over the last five years, reflecting evolutions in criminal groups' money laundering and trafficking practices away from established financial institutions.
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20/04/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - 'Gulf Cartel Now in Control of Cancun'
The Gulf Cartel has reportedly driven rival organization the Zetas out of the state of Quintana Roo and tourist hotspot Cancun, potentially leaving the resurgent cartel with control of a popular trafficking route along Mexico's Caribbean coastline.
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19/04/2013 | Frente Externo
Is Paraguay Heading for a Narco-President?
On April 21 Paraguay votes for a new president and, if opinion polls are to be believed, a man believed to be one of the country's leading money launderers as well as a DEA target, may get the top job.
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14/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Neo-Paramilitary Groups Consolidating in Colombia: Report
The Colombian government has failed to properly assess the threat posed by the rise of two "neo-paramilitary cartels," which now aim to control every level of criminal activity in Colombia, according to a new report by a Bogota think tank.
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10/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Disappearances, Clandestine Graves on Rise in El Salvador
Reports of disappearances and discoveries of hidden graves in El Salvador have risen substantially so far in 2013 compared to 2012, supporting the theory that gangs may be hiding dead bodies to protect the credibility of the country's gang truce.
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03/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Arrest May Shake Up Urabeños War in Colombia's Caribbean
The latest in a series of arrests targeting emergent criminal organization the Giraldos may yet tip the balance of the conflict along Colombia's Caribbean coast, where the country's dominant criminal force, the Urabeños, are facing serious challenges to their authority.
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19/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Interpol Launches First-Ever Wood Trafficking Op in LatAm
Interpol arrested nearly 200 people and seized millions of dollars' worth of timber as its first international operation against large-scale illegal logging targeted Latin America's large illicit timber market.
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09/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Latin America Dominates World's Most Dangerous Cities List
The 2012 list of the world’s most dangerous cities is again dominated by Latin America, and suggests violence is rising in Venezuela but waning in Mexico.
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