Alessandro Ford
Within the span of a week, cocaine was discovered in two separate maritime cargo containers bound...
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Libya, North Africa Emerge As Cocaine Transit Hubs
An Israeli national suspected of ties to Japanese and Israeli mafia groups has been accused of...
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Middleman Linked Colombian Gangs with Israeli, Japanese Mafia
The assassination of Albanian national Adriatik Tresa inside his luxury property in Ecuador has...
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Albanian Mafia Leaves Trail of Blood in Ecuador
A surge in cattle and horse rustling is plaguing ranchers along the Uruguay-Brazil border, but a...
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Uruguay Cracking Down on Cattle Rustling from Brazil
A series of unusual and contrasting seizures of rare fauna in the Mexico City area have raised...
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Mexico City’s Roaring Trade in Wildlife Trafficking
Venezuela has long been known as a strategic rearguard for Colombia guerrilla groups. Yet 2020 saw...
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GameChangers 2020: Tren de Aragua and the Exportation of Venezuelan Organized Crime
A rush of drug plane traffic from South America, coupled with traffickers smuggling large cocaine...
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GameChangers 2020: The Resurgence of the Central American Cocaine Highway
In a region where 50 percent of the population already makes its living in the informal market, it...
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GameChangers 2020: How Black Markets Became the New Normal
President-elect Joe Biden has a chance to reset the table on US-Latin American relations, but the...
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GameChangers 2020: Conflicting US Approach to Latin America Organized Crime
Welcome to InSight Crime’s Criminal GameChangers 2020, where we highlight the most...
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GameChangers 2020: How Organized Crime Survived the Pandemic
An ongoing gang war in Ecuador’s prisons has made 2020 the bloodiest year on record for inmates,...
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Proxy Gang Wars Fuel Record Homicides in Ecuador’s Prisons
The world’s biggest oil trading firm faces a large fine after a multi-country investigation...
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