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Mexican Officials Extort Asylum Seekers on Way to USA
Fresh reports that Mexican immigration officials extort asylum seekers at the US border adds to scores of stories of abuse at the hands of crime groups,...
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Colombia’s Remote Telembí Triangle Sees Gangs Shake Down Illegal Miners
Colombia’s southern department of Nariño is home to an extortion scheme, where two of the country’s largest criminal organizations, the ELN and the Urabeños,...
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Clear Penalty as Colombian Soccer Star Netted for Drug Trafficking
Jhon Viáfara, a roving midfielder for Colombia’s national soccer team, was arrested on suspicion of seeking to export cocaine to the United States. This is but...
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Dominican Groups Eye Lucrative Patagonia Drug Market
A series of arrests of Dominican nationals in the south of Argentina over recent months have highlighted an unlikely, but highly lucrative, spot in Latin America...
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Op-Ed: The ELN as a Colombo-Venezuelan Rebel Army
The ELN, Colombia’s last rebel army, has engaged in exponential growth over the last four years, both in Colombia and within Venezuela, and may now be described...
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Cuban Doctors Used in Extortion Scheme by Venezuelan Gov’t
A new investigation has revealed how Cuban doctors are used by the Venezuelan government in an extortion scheme to remain in power, revealing new forms of criminal...
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Illegal Mining May Collapse Colombia’s Cerro Mono Ecosystem
Colombian authorities have discovered that an important water resource is under threat from illegal mining in a rural area of Cúcuta, revealing that the region is...
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Netflix’s Triple Frontier: Oscar Winner of Narco-Exploitation Movies
With a script that makes little sense and drug-related elements force-fed into the narrative, Triple Frontier appears nothing more than an action-packed movie...
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How Venezuela’s Stolen Gold Ended Up in Turkey, Uganda and Beyond
What do such distant countries as Venezuela, the Bahamas, Ireland, Morocco, Dubai and Turkey have in common? They were all part of the trade routes for illicit...
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Mexico’s Eternal Union Boss May Finally Fall
Allegations of stunning amounts of corruption are mounting against Carlos Romero Deschamps, leader of the Mexican Oil Workers’ Union for 25 years, threatening to...
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Is Mexico’s New National Guard Just Another Uniform?
Mexico’s new National Guard is another step closer to taking up arms, but the logic behind the agency’s creation and its potential for improving the nation’s...
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Satellite Images Show Threat of Criminal Activities in Peru’s Amazon
Imaging compiled by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) shows how in 2018 medium scale deforestation affected huge swaths of rainforest in Peru’s...
