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How Fear of Crime in Central America Impacts Daily Life, Contributes to Migration
A new report shows the extent to which insecurity negatively affects the daily lives of Central American citizens, and provides further evidence that crime and...
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Allegations of Venezuela, Nicaragua Complicity in FARC Money Laundering Resurface
Recent testimony before the US Senate revived allegations that a Venezuela-owned company in Nicaragua may have laundered money for Colombia's demobilizing FARC...
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Nicaragua Claims No ‘Cartel’ Presence, But Past Cases Tell a Different Story
Authorities in Nicaragua are trumpeting their counternarcotics efforts, which they say have kept "cartels" out of the country. But a series of prosecutions of...
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Nicaragua Discreetly Prosecutes Prominent Drug Trafficking Suspect
Authorities in Nicaragua are discreetly prosecuting a major underworld figure from the country's Caribbean coast, highlighting the area's important but often...
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Human Trafficking Network Dismantled in Panama
A Panama court has convicted and sentenced three members of a Nicaraguan-led human trafficking network focused on exploiting people for manual labor, a promising...
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Drug Traffickers Destroying Large Sections of CentAm Forests: Report
A new study estimates that up to 30 percent of all deforestation in three Central American countries is due to cocaine trafficking, providing some much-needed data...
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Nicaragua Indigenous Leader Says Loggers Offering Weapons for Wood
An indigenous leader in Nicaragua says loggers are offering weapons to his community in exchange for illegally logging forests in their territory, providing yet...
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US Report Shows Revitalized Central America Cocaine Corridor
The US State Department named seven Central American countries as havens for laundering the proceeds of drug trafficking and organized crime, and described the...
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Costa Rica, Nicaragua Join Efforts to Combat Organized Crime
A high level meeting between officials in Costa Rica and Nicaragua is expected to lead to greater cooperation on tackling several facets of organized crime, an...
