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The dismantling of a sophisticated human trafficking network in Chile has drawn attention to the...
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Human Trafficking Complaints Rise in Chile
Two lesser-known criminal groups have grabbed headlines in recent weeks for their role in the...
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How Mexico’s ‘Small Armies’ Came to Commit a Massacre
While the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel has faced the brunt of the Mexican government’s war against...
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Mexico’s Oil Thieves Have Moved Into Extortion in Guanajuato
Three years ago, a massive police operation swept through the Bronx, a small neighborhood at the...
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Microtrafficking Getting Worse in Outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia
Authorities in Argentina dismantled a drug trafficking organization whose leader operated from...
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Argentina’s Piñero Prison Becoming Increasing Organized Crime Hotspot
The June 2019 massacre of 13 Rotela Clan members by PCC inmates at the San Pedro prison in Paraguay...
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Overcrowded, Too Few Guards and Easy Access to Drugs in Paraguay’s Most Crowded Prison
A massive flow of smuggled fuel from Ecuador into Colombia is benefiting drug traffickers who use...
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Smuggled Ecuador Gas Fuels Colombia Cocaine Production
Authorities dismantled a transnational human smuggling ring that brought migrants from South Asia...
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Human Smuggling from Asia to Latin America On Rise
Female members of a cell of Brazil’s violent PCC prison gang ordered and carried out the killing...
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Women in Brazil PCC Cell Take Part in Planning Killings
Destruction of wildlife spurred by illegal fishing in the Ciénaga de Simití swampland in the...
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Illegal Fishing Threatens Food Security in Bolívar, Colombia
Colombia is at a crossroads. Several paths lay before it. One sees the ex-FARC mafia consigned to...
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The Future of the Ex-FARC Mafia
After 2002, under increasing pressure from security forces, the FARC moved much of their...
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