14/01/2019 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
5 Reasons LatAm Organized Crime Will Strengthen in 2019
It is hard to be optimistic for 2019. The current trends all point to a strengthening of organized crime throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, as the criminals adapt far more quickly than authorities to changing conditions and take advantage of new opportunities.
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30/04/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
‘The Invisibles’: Colombia’s New Generation of Drug Traffickers
Drug trafficking has long embedded itself in Colombia’s civil conflict, hiding among, and subverting, the warring factions. Now as the civil conflict draws down, with just the ELN still in the field, drug trafficking is mutating once again.
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26/08/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
What Does Colombia Peace Deal Mean for Cocaine Trade?
A peace agreement between Colombia's government and the country’s largest rebel army has been reached, and while the end of the five-decade old civil war has immense political and social implications, it's not clear what is going to happen to the criminal economies that have sustained thousands of rebels.
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27/06/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Peace Agreement and Colombia’s Criminal Dynamics
The Colombian government and rebels of the FARC laid out their plans for a definitive ceasefire and concentration of guerrilla fighters in an historic event in Havana, Cuba. But nothing goes into effect until the final peace agreement is signed, and there is still no plan to address the criminal earnings that sustain the rebel movement.
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18/08/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Death of a Colombian Narco-Guerrilla?
Rumors are swirling that the leader of a splinter rebel group, dedicated to drug trafficking along the border with Venezuela, has been killed in an offensive by the security forces.
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30/06/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Possible Scenarios for the FARC's Fragmentation
There are three possible scenarios for the fragmentation and/or criminalization of the FARC. The first could occur during peace talks, the second once an agreement is reached, and the last once the group has demobilized and elements of the rebels stay in, or return to, the field, continuing with the same illicit activities in which the FARC currently engage.
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01/01/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Latin America Organized Crime: What to Expect in 2015
Latin America is the most dangerous region in the world in terms of homicides and 2015 is unlikely to see any change in that. Below we list seven of the nations we believe are the most vulnerable to transnational organized crime in 2015.
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05/12/2014 | Transparencia
How Organized Crime & Corruption Intersect in LatAm
As Transparency International publishes its annual rankings on corruption, InSight Crime looks at how corruption is impacted in Latin America by one of its most powerful promoters: organized crime.
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05/12/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Organized Crime & Corruption Intersect in LatAm
As Transparency International publishes its annual rankings on corruption, InSight Crime looks at how corruption is impacted in Latin America by one of its most powerful promoters: organized crime.
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18/10/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bolivia: the New Hub for Drug Trafficking in South America
Transnational organized crime likes opportunities and little resistance. Bolivia currently provides both and finds itself at the heart of a new criminal dynamic that threatens national and citizen security in this landlocked Andean nation.
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28/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Are Paraguay Rebels Looking for Prisoner Exchange?
Alcido Fick has made an impassioned plea to the EPP for the release of his son, for whom a ransom has already been paid. But Paraguay's rebel group may be seeking to copy their Colombian cousins and force a prisoner exchange.
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09/05/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The BACRIM and Their Position in Colombia's Underworld
The name BACRIM was created by the government of former President Alvaro Uribe in the aftermath of the demobilization of the AUC. Then-President Uribe was keen to draw a line in the sand, to avoid undermining the AUC peace process.
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06/05/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Urabeños - The Criminal Hybrid
The winners, the Urabeños, are the perfect amalgamation of Colombian organized crime. While they were born from the demobilization of the AUC, much of the Urabeños' criminal pedigree goes much further back. Many of their members, before joining the paramilitaries, were part of one of the three main Marxist rebel groups, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the National Liberation Army (ELN) or the People's Liberation Army (EPL). And many others, particularly on the drug trafficking side, can trace their criminal history back to the Medellin Cartel, which pioneered the cocaine trade almost 40 years ago.
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21/01/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
What Did the FARC Truce Tell Us?
The unilateral truce called by Colombia's rebels over Christmas ended with very few, but telling violations, suggesting that the guerrilla leadership is still seeing its orders obeyed for the most part, but that the risk of fragmentation is real.
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28/12/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
4 Reasons Why Peru Became World's Top Cocaine Producer
In 2013, the UN confirmed Peru had overtaken Colombia as the world's number one coca and cocaine producer. How could this happen in a relatively peaceful nation with a booming economy?
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27/12/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Perú - 4 razones de por qué Perú se convierte en el máximo productor de cocaína en el mundo
En 2013, la ONU confirmó que Perú había sobrepasado a Colombia como el principal productor de coca y cocaína en el mundo. ¿Cómo sucedió esto en un país relativamente tranquilo, con una economía en auge?.
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03/12/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
20 Years After Pablo: The Evolution of Colombia's Drug Trade
Twenty years ago, on December 3, 1993, Pablo Escobar, the pioneer of Colombia's cocaine trade, was killed on a rooftop in his native Medellin by police. His death signaled the end of one era of drug trafficking and the birth of another, as the drug trade continued apace, with Medellin still at its heart.
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25/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia -Possible Scenarios for the FARC's Fragmentation
There are three possible scenarios for the fragmentation and/or criminalization of the FARC. The first could occur during peace talks, the second once an agreement is reached, and the last once the group has demobilized and elements of the rebels stay in, or return to, the field, continuing with the same illicit activities in which the FARC currently engage.
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08/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Venezuela Prison Abandoned after Massacre Leaves 61 Dead
Sixty one prisoners have been killed and up to 120 wounded during a riot at Uribana jail in the western Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto, cementing Venezuela's reputation of having the most dangerous prison system in the world.
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26/12/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Money Runs Out for Belize Gang Truce
The Belize government, struggling to meet national debt payments, has ended its controversial gang truce program, a measure almost certain to result in increased violence and homicides in 2013.
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06/06/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Rastrojos Founder Captured in Venezuela
Venezuelan authorities have caught the founding leader of the Rastrojos, once Colombia's most powerful transnational criminal organization, which is now likely to fragment and provoke a shift in mafia across the country.
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09/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'Comba' Cuts a Deal and the Rastrojos Lose Ground
After months of negotiations with the DEA, Javier Calle Serna, alias 'Comba,' has surrendered to US authorities, possibly creating a seismic shift in the Colombian underworld.
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08/04/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombian Conflict Enters a New Phase
As ideological differences become irrelevant, Colombia's illegal armies and drug traffickers are now working together, united against the government. Nowhere is this clearer than in the province of Norte De Santander, on the border with Venezuela.
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01/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia's criminal networks consolidate around two forces
Two major criminal networks have been extending their reach throughout Colombia. In Mexico. pressure from security forces has had the opposite effect, causing the criminal underworld to fragment.
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05/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia - FARC Massacre 7 who Impersonated Rebels in Extortion Racket
Colombian rebels are believed to be behind the massacre of seven people who pretended to be the FARC in order to extort money, as the guerrillas step up their extortion demands across the country.
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05/07/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia - FARC Massacre 7 who Impersonated Rebels in Extortion Racket
Colombian rebels are believed to be behind the massacre of seven people who pretended to be the FARC in order to extort money, as the guerrillas step up their extortion demands across the country.
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28/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia ELN Rebels Climb Back Into the Fray
Colombia’s ELN rebel group, often forgotten and underestimated, is increasing its strength thanks to a belated involvement in the drug trade, and alliances with both its guerrilla cousins the FARC, and a new generation of narco-paramilitary groups.
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28/06/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia ELN Rebels Climb Back Into the Fray
Colombia’s ELN rebel group, often forgotten and underestimated, is increasing its strength thanks to a belated involvement in the drug trade, and alliances with both its guerrilla cousins the FARC, and a new generation of narco-paramilitary groups.
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23/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Corruption in Dominican Security Forces Aids Drug Trafficking
More than 5,000 members of the Dominican security forces have been fired over the last three years amid accusations of widespread corruption, as Hispaniola remains an important transshipment point for cocaine heading to the U.S. and Europe.
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23/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Corruption in Dominican Security Forces Aids Drug Trafficking
More than 5,000 members of the Dominican security forces have been fired over the last three years amid accusations of widespread corruption, as Hispaniola remains an important transshipment point for cocaine heading to the U.S. and Europe.
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08/01/2008 | En Parrilla
Colombia rejects foreign missions
The Colombian government said it will not accept any more international commissions like that set up last month by President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela.
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