Monthly Archives: July 2020
The fall in heroin prices in the United States and the devastating economic effect this has had on...
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Mexico Opium Network Shines Light on Marginalized Poppy-Growing Communities
Recent incursions by the ELN to set up illegal mining facilities along the Caura River in central...
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Venezuela Indigenous Communities at Risk From ELN Mining Incursions
Reports that the head of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation constructed a hospital, both for himself...
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El Mencho’s Hospital Rare Example of Infrastructure Built by Mexico Cartels
Mexico’s Navy has welcomed recommendations from a human rights group to accept responsibility for...
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Mexico’s Navy May Accept Alleged Role in 2018 Border Kidnappings
Colombia’s Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez has withdrawn a criminal complaint alleging...
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Colombia VP Drops Criminal Complaint Against InSight Crime
Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office has notified InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy McDermott of...
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Colombia Vice President Threatens InSight Crime with Criminal Charges
Salvadoran authorities have arrested General David Munguía Payés, a former defense minister who...
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El Salvador Arrests General Behind 2012 Gang Truce
Ricardo Abel Ayala Ortega, alias "Cabuyo," is currently one of Colombia's highest value military...
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Ricardo Abel Ayala Ortega, alias ‘Cabuyo’
The Guatemalan government has once again imposed martial law in a region pivotal to organized...
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Guatemala Imposes Martial Law Under Pretext of Combating Organized Crime
The relocation of entire communities of former FARC fighters and their families is becoming...
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Colombia’s Former FARC Fighters Abandon Reincorporation Camps
As Venezuelan citizens try to return home during the coronavirus pandemic, their own government has...
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Between Contraband and Coronavirus: Migration Dynamics at the Venezuela-Colombia Border
The sophisticated theft of a cigarette shipment has put Chile’s worsening contraband cigarette...
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