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06/01/2015 | Transparencia
How Corruption Feeds Land Trafficking in Latin America
Recent cases involving the illegal appropriation and sale of lands in Peru and Brazil highlight how lucrative land trafficking can be in Latin America, and how it is often facilitated by official corruption.
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01/12/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Hidden Dimensions of Extortion in Guatemala
Massive underreporting of extortion in Guatemala makes it difficult to gauge the scope of the crime, according to a government research agency, but one thing is clear: it has become a huge source of trouble for the population.
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21/10/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Montesinos is Gone, But Peru's Narco-Political Brokers Continue Tradition
Peru's drug trade was once highly centralized and facilitated by one powerful man: the government's former spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos. Montesinos, and his system, are gone, but traffickers still need their political brokers.
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04/10/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Can Peru Rid its Election of Narco-Influence?
The evidence suggests that Peru's upcoming local elections will be strongly influenced by drug trafficking, a phenomenon with a troubling historical precedent -- but one which the authorities seem to be trying to combat.
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12/09/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico's Kidnapping Hotspots: The High-Risk States
Kidnapping is the most troublesome security problem facing Mexico’s government, and a breakdown of kidnapping reports by a watchdog group reinforces the idea that only long-term institutional reform can cure it.
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06/09/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Brazilian Gang Runs Cocaine Trade in Peru's Rebel Heartland
An emerging criminal group from Brazil may control up to 60 percent of the cocaine trafficked out of Peru, as Brazilian organized crime moves closer the source of the illegal drugs demanded by its booming domestic market, apparently securing supplies directly from the world's top cocaine producer.
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28/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Internal Displacement in Brazil: An Inconvenient Truth?
As Brazil works to project the image of a nation that is effectively addressing security challenges in its major cities, one important indicator -- internal displacement -- is being overlooked.
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28/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala Asset Seizures a Key Tool, But Implementation Tough
Asset seizure laws can be an excellent way to attack the economic power base of organized crime groups, but in Guatemala -- and other countries in the region -- a number of bureaucratic challenges have made implementation difficult.
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09/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Politics, Starvation and Colombia's Thriving Illicit Gas Trade
he presidents of Colombia and Venezuela have reiterated their promise to crack down on contraband along their shared border. At the center of the crisis is the perennial illegal trade in cheap Venezuelan gasoline through the Colombian border province of La Guajira, where drought and starvation demonstrate just how little of the trafficking wealth trickles down.
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21/07/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Is Central America's Gang Violence a Humanitarian Crisis?
Violence perpetrated by "mara" street gangs and drug trafficking groups in Central America undermines the state and leads to high homicide rates, forced recruitment and forced displacement -- an impact comparable to that of an armed conflict.
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25/05/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Why Increased Interdiction Does Not Lead to Less Drug Trafficking
The routes and methods used by drug traffickers are in constant flux, but it is not easy to pinpoint the causes of these shifts. However, it is clear that interdiction programs have failed to halt supply in consumer states and instead appear to have facilitated the migration of organized crime -- a phenomenon with important implications for drug policy
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02/05/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Cartel-US Gang Ties Deepening as Criminal Landscape Fragments
US gangs and Mexico's organized crime groups are forging ever closer ties, according to US authorities, as the fragmenting cartels turn to the transnational criminal outsourcing model to protect their interests north of the border.
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24/04/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Drone Use in Latin America: Dangers and Opportunities
Drones are gaining popularity in Latin American surveillance due to their technological advantages, but their use currently lacks a legal framework. While people commonly associate drones with extrajudicial killings, in this region unregulated use raises a different set of issues regarding human rights and sovereignty.
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01/02/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
‘War on Drugs’ Subverts Human Rights, Strengthens Organized Crime: HRW
In the new annual report published by Human Rights Watch, the NGO argues that governments should decriminalize personal drug use to protect human rights, but does not address the potentially negative effects this could have on the drug trade if it is not coupled with comprehensive policy reform.
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24/01/2014 | Frente Externo
Honduras: A New President Tries to Steady the Sinking Ship
On January 27, Juan Orlando Hernandez will become president of Honduras where he will inherit some of the most decrepit and corrupt institutions in the region and face down a fierce criminal presence that threatens to push his government into the category of failed state.
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27/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Complex Relationship of Organized Crime and Violence in LatAm
A new UN report finds that organized crime bears a complex relationship to rising insecurity and violence in Latin America, which is influenced by a host of other factors, a conclusion with important implications for security policy.
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27/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Organized Crime the True Winner in Honduras Elections
What is the last thing a violence-wracked, corrupt Central American nation needs as it seeks to fight transnational organized crime: contested presidential elections. Welcome to Honduras.
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27/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bolivia Govt Admits Major Cocaine Transit
Bolivia’s interior minister has admitted the country has “technological weaknesses” that make it difficult to properly track incoming drug flights, but failed to acknowledge the country’s more direct role in the drug trade, as a cocaine producer.
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06/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Is Ecuador Poised to Become a Heroin Producer?
In August, authorities in Ecuador eradicated the largest poppy crop of the year, representing nearly a third of the total number of plants found in 2012 and bolstering the notion that the country could be a heroin producer.
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08/09/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Mara Women: Gender Roles in CentAm Street Gangs
A study of gender roles in Central America's "maras" sheds light on the dual role of women, who are simultaneously violently exploited and heavily relied on by male gang members.
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25/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
¿Son los países del Triángulo del Norte 'Narco-Estados'?
Las organizaciones criminales de México y de otros países han consolidado cada vez más su presencia en el Triángulo Norte de Centroamérica, tomando el control de grandes extensiones de tierra, cooptando funcionarios y utilizando empresas fachada para cubrir sus rastros ilegales; lo que llevó a un prominente investigador de Estados Unidos a hacer la pregunta: ¿se han entregado por completo estos Estados a los intereses criminales?
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20/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Are Northern Triangle Countries 'Narco-States'?
Mexico's and other countries' criminal organizations have increasingly solidified their presence in Central America's Northern Triangle, taking control of large swathes of land, co-opting officials and using front businesses to cover their illegal tracks, leading one prominent US researcher to ask the question: have these states given themselves up completely to criminal interests?
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10/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Argentina - Drug Trafficking Ring Links Argentina to Serbia, Croatia
Argentine authorities have arrested the final suspect in an international drug trafficking network led by Serbians and Croatians that moved cocaine from Argentina to Eastern Europe, highlighting the rising importance of this route in the global cocaine trade.
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04/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Megateo: Rise of a Narco Guerrilla
The leader of the sole remaining faction of the demobilized EPL guerrilla army is a top target of Colombian and US authorities and has been portrayed as the main power in the protest-wracked Catatumbo region, raising the question: why is the leader of such a small group such a big deal?
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30/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Top Navy Officer Killed in Southwest Mexico
Armed men in southwest Mexico's Michoacan state have killed one of the country's top-ranking naval officers -- believed to be the most senior official to fall in years -- in a blow to Mexico's most trusted crime fighting force.
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26/04/2013 | High Tech
Over Half LatAm Companies Reported Cyber Attacks in 2012
Over half of Latin American companies suffered from cyber attacks such as malware, fraud, denial of service and phishing in 2012, according to Internet security firm ESET, highlighting the prevalence of cyber crime across the region.
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26/04/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Honduras Police Involved in Extortion Racket: Report
Tegucigalpa residents say that police work with gangs that go door-to-door to collect extortion fees of nearly $80 per month, in an example of the involvement of security forces in organized crime in Honduras.
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08/04/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Reporting from Ilopango: El Salvador's First Peace Zone
El Faro tells the story of Ilopango's first month as a "violence-free" municipality, after it was named as the first "peace zone" to be launched as part of El Salvador's gang truce.
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25/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Identifies Violent Zones for New Crime Prevention Strategy
Mexico’s government has listed 250 highly violent zones to be targeted under a new crime prevention program, as the new administration’s violence reduction strategy begins to take shape.
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24/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
2 Million Children Sexually Exploited in LatAm: Women's Coalition
Approximately two million children and adolescents are currently sexually exploited in Latin America, according to an anti-sex trafficking coalition, highlighting the potential scale of a transnational crime that all too often goes unpunished.
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14/03/2013 | High Tech
Mexico City Launches Crime-Fighting Smartphone App
Mexico City's government has launched a cell phone application allowing users to rapidly locate the nearest police in an emergency, raising the question of whether harnessing such technology will indeed lead to improved security.
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10/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican Authorities Accuse Vigilantes of Drug Cartel Ties
Mexican authorities have accused a vigilante group in southwest Mexico of being a front for a drug cartel, in what could be a sign of criminal infiltration of the self-defense groups, or just a smear from the threatened security forces.
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22/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Report: Argentina Anti-Money Laundering Unit Fails to Investigate Overseas
An investigative report says Argentina’s national anti-money laundering body neglects to fully investigate reports of suspicious activities by Argentine citizens and companies, opening a giant escape hatch for nearly $100 billion in illegal proceeds.
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