25/08/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
¿El ELN toma las riendas del persistente negocio de la heroína en Colombia?
Se conocen informes de que el grupo guerrillero ELN ha tomado el control del negocio de la heroína en el sur de Colombia, lo que, de confirmarse, representaría un giro total en los patrones de tráfico de esta mermada pero persistente actividad.
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01/06/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Analysis - In El Salvador, a Thin Line Between Community Policing and Vigilantism
Authorities in El Salvador are keen to expand a much-praised local policing model believed to have helped two rural communities tackle bloody gang control. But a visit to the areas revealed a murky combination of factors behind the security gains, including indications of vigilantism.
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13/02/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia ‘Narco Junior’ Lived Double Life as Jet-Setter and Medellín Crime Boss: Authorities
Authorities in Colombia arrested the son of a late Medellín Cartel trafficker on charges that he held a leadership role within the crime group that succeeded Pablo Escobar’s infamous organization — at the same time as he was maintaining relationships with some of Colombia’s most fashionable and famous elites.
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19/08/2017 | High Tech
Trafficking Routes Up for Grabs After Fall of Top Caribbean Drug Kingpin
The man who was once considered the most powerful drug kingpin in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico has been convicted and sentenced to decades in a US prison, raising questions as to who will step up to take control over the growing drug trade in this small but important trafficking corridor.
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18/06/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Losing the Fight Against Illegal Firearms
Press reports have raised the alarm on decreasing gun seizures in Mexico and their possible impact on homicides, but the bigger issue may be the sheer size of Mexico's black market.
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17/05/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala Communities Clash Over Opium Crops Allegedly Tied to Mexico Cartels
Guatemala has declared a state of emergency in a border area where two local communities employed by rival Mexican cartels are fighting over poppy cultivation, a local conflict that is just one battle in a regional war for the heroin market.
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