13/10/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Analysis - Barrio 18, MS 13: El Salvador’s Jailed Gang Mediator: ¨I feel defrauded¨
The former leftist guerrilla and ex-congressman Raúl Mijango is jailed and facing 20 years in prison for extortion — one of two crimes derived from his role in the gang truce in El Salvador — but don’t call him a martyr just yet.
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12/08/2018 | High Tech
The Zetas, Drug Money and the Colom Campaign in Guatemala
In the first of three articles concerning illicit political contributions in Guatemala, we look at the 2007 presidential campaign of Álvaro Colom. Colom, the bookish former head of a prominent development agency, won the election with help from dubious operatives such as Obdulio Solórzano, who allegedly secured financial support from Mexican and Guatemalan organized crime groups. This story tracks Solórzano’s rise and his ignominious, bloody fall.
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06/05/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Coca, Cocaine and Guerrillas: Capturing the ‘Lost War’
We stayed longer than we should have. It was always like that with Carlos Villalon. That’s what he does. He stays longer than anybody should.
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15/09/2017 | Transparencia
#BlackWednesday: Guatemala Takes Another Step to Institutionalize Corruption
Guatemala's congress took another bold step towards institutionalizing corruption on September 13, by reforming a law to protect politicians and their party functionaries from prosecution and penalties in cases of illicit financing of political campaigns.
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21/03/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Another Day, Another Damning Testimony of Elites by Honduras Trafficker
In his continuing testimony to a US court in New York City, a confessed drug trafficker from Honduras implicated the brother of current Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in his criminal enterprise, the latest in a series of accusations that appear to be forming the foundation for several more ground-breaking US judicial cases against Honduras elites.
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04/03/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Defining a Mafia State: The Case of Guatemala
On March 2, InSight Crime held a Facebook Live session to discuss current events related to organized crime in Latin America. Our main topic was the creation of a mafia state in Guatemala, and the recent US indictment against former top Guatemalan officials on drug charges. This is a transcript of the introduction to our conversation on the topic.
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11/07/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How Drug Trafficking Operates, Corrupts in Central America
While speaking before the US Congress' Central America Caucus on July 6, InSight Crime Co-Director Steven Dudley outlined how drug trafficking organizations on the isthmus operate and the implications for rule of law and security, before offering three concrete ways the US government can improve its counternarcotics strategy in the region.
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24/04/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Elites and Organized Crime: Introduction, Methodology, and Conceptual Framework
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13/11/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
CentAm Elites Afraid of Prosecution? Don't Bet on It
After the United States indicted one of Honduras' most powerful families for money laundering, conventional wisdom suggests that other corrupt elites might fear they could be next. However, sources consulted by InSight Crime say this logic does not always prevail amongst the Central American clans believed to have ties with organized crime.
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11/10/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Why Elites Do Business with Criminals in Honduras
In early June, four months before the US released an indictment against Jaime Rosenthal and three others, InSight Crime sat down with Jaime and his daughter to discuss why one of the wealthiest and politically connected families in Honduras did extensive business with the Cachiros, once one of the region’s most powerful drug trafficking clans. The answer, it turns out, is pretty simple: it was good business.
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08/09/2015 | Frente Externo
Guatemala Votes for Military-backed Candidate
Jimmy Morales, the leader of a political party founded by ex-military personnel, won the first round of Guatemala’s presidential elections September 6. A runoff is scheduled for October 25 between Morales and whoever won second place, which has yet to be determined.
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25/08/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
5 Reasons Why Guatemala is in Upheaval Now
Guatemala is in upheaval: former vice president Roxana Baldetti is behind bars; President Otto Perez Molina is facing persistent calls to resign. Why is this all happening now? Here are five reasons.
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27/03/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Barrio 18 in El Salvador: A View from the Inside
A series of anonymous testimonies from Barrio 18 gang members taken by El Salvador's Attorney General's Office reveal the innards of the gang's structure, operations and rules.
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02/03/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
What an Ex-General Wants to Teach Honduras Police: Interview
Retired military General Julian Pacheco, who began serving as Honduras' new minister of security this year, faces some big challenges in the Central American country, the most violent in the region. But even with his military background, in an exclusive interview with InSight Crime, Pacheco says he is "not here" to teach Honduras' police "war tactics."
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28/02/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Captures 'La Tuta' but Michoacan Struggles On
The capture of yet another high-level target -- this time Servando Gomez, alias "La Tuta," the leader of the Knights Templar -- should be cause for celebration in Mexico, but the statistics indicate that the government may need to reassess what success means in embattled states like Michoacan.
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29/10/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Salvador Gangs and Security Forces Up the Ante in Post-Truce Battle
Since the dissolution of the gang truce, assassinations of police and military personnel and clashes between gangs and security forces have changed the security equation in El Salvador, closing any small window left to revive the short-lived and highly criticized ceasefire.
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21/09/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Justice and the Creation of a Mafia State in Guatemala
As Guatemala's Congress gears up to select new Supreme Court Justices and appellate court judges, InSight Crime is investigating how organized crime influences the selection process. This story details the interests of one particular political bloc vying for control over the courts and what's at stake: millions of dollars in public money, much of which is siphoned for individual and political use, and the ability to pillage it with impunity.
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28/06/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Criminal Evolution and Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean
Why is Latin America and the Caribbean so violent? InSight Crime Co-director Steven Dudley gave his answer at a recent conference on organized crime and displacement in the region.
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16/06/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
How a Good Soccer Team Gives Criminals Space to Operate
Local soccer teams give criminal groups in the Northern Triangle countries of Central America the ability to launder proceeds, evade taxes, and accumulate enough political and social capital to avoid scrutiny.
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25/04/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala - The War of Paz y Paz: The Revolution
Since taking over in 2010, Guatemala's Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz has waged a revolution from inside one of the country's most troubled institutions. She has submitted her name for another four-year term that would begin in May, but her enemies are strong and want to return to the status quo. The first part of this three-part investigation explores her unexpected nomination and her bold actions against transnational criminal organizations.
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25/04/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala - The War of Paz y Paz: The Victims
Since taking over in 2010, Guatemala's Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz has waged a revolutionary war from inside one of the country's most troubled institutions. She has submitted her name for another four-year term that would begin in May, but her enemies are strong and want to return to the status quo. The second part of this three-part investigation explores how her attempts to prosecute former General Efrain Rios Montt for genocide have solidified opposition against her.
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25/04/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala, The War of Paz y Paz: Enemy of the State
Given her record fighting crime, Guatemala's Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz should be an obvious choice to retain her job. In addition to the high profile arrests of organized crime figures and her work improving access to justice for women, rates of impunity have dropped by 23 percent in the past six years, according to the United Nations-led judicial team the Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG).
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21/04/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
2 Divergent Views on El Salvador Gang Truce, 1 Sad Conclusion
Two wildly divergent views of what is happening with the truce between El Salvador's two foremost gangs converge in one important way: they both paint a bleak picture for the near future of the fragile agreement and of the country.
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14/04/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Terrorism and Crime in the Americas – 'It's Business'
In a statement given before the Organization of American States, InSight Crime's Steven Dudley discusses the reality of the links between global terrorist groups and Latin American organized crime, and some common political obstacles to addressing those links effectively.
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01/02/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A Legal Framework Will Not Solve Mexico's Vigilante Issue
If Mexico's government thinks that "legalizing" vigilante groups in the embattled state of Michoacan will solve its citizen security problems, it should have a closer look at the three other countries in the region -- Colombia, Guatemala and Peru -- that tried similar projects under similar circumstances with dreadful results.
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09/01/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
CIA v. Colombia's 'Elite Command': Battle from the Ground Up
A recent article in the Washington Post about the CIA's participation in the precision bombing of FARC guerrilla leaders undermined some aspects of Colombia's new narrative about the prowess of its security forces. However, it also illustrated an important difference between the US and Colombian approaches that may prove to be more important than anything Washington can offer.
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03/01/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mass Graves Burying the Truth about El Salvador Gang Truce
Homicide levels, and more recently, clandestine mass graves, are driving the debate about the success or failure of the gang truce in El Salvador, but they are also obscuring some important truths about why the truce is steadily eroding and why its end has become almost inevitable.
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21/11/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US Cables Raise Questions about Mexico Migrant Massacres
US government documents obtained by a Washington DC-based non-governmental organization shed some light on one of the darkest periods in recent Mexican history: the multiple massacres of migrants between August 2010 and May 2012. However, the full story will not be known until the government of Mexico opens its own vaults.
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13/10/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The US Govt's Dangerous Dance with Honduras
The US government's declaration of war on the Cachiros drug trafficking gang has sent a message to Honduras' economic and political elites that no one is safe -- but will the strategy backfire?
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25/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Tregua entre Pandillas en El Salvador: Aspectos Positivos y Negativos
La tregua entre las dos pandillas más grandes de El Salvador (la MS-13 y Barrio 18) abre nuevas posibilidades sobre la forma de lidiar con el aparentemente insoluble problema de las pandillas callejeras. Pero también crea nuevos peligros.
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10/08/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Civil Society, the Government and the Development of Citizen Security
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04/08/2013 | Frente Externo
Uruguay's Marijuana Bill Passes House, Awaits World's Verdict
After passing a stern test in the lower house of congress, Uruguay's historic marijuana legalization bill will soon become law, but its impact may be more international than national.
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16/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Capture of Zetas Leader Opens Door for More Mexico Violence
The capture of the Zetas leader Miguel Treviño, alias Z-40, may mean more violence in the near term as his minions fight for the most coveted brand name in Mexico's underworld and his rivals move into his areas of influence.
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14/07/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
5 Differences Between El Salvador, Honduras Gang Truces
El Salvador and Honduras are pioneering new efforts to stop gang-related violence via truces, but there are some critical differences between the two experiments that may make or break them.
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23/06/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Salvador's Gang Truce: Positives and Negatives
Whether it is sustainable or not, the truce -- which the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and the Barrio 18 put into place March 2012 -- has changed the conventional thinking about who the gangs are and what is the best way to handle the most difficult law and order issue in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
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08/06/2013 | Transparencia
Colombia - 90% of engineering contracts in Colombia ¨rigged¨: Engineers
Colombia’s system for awarding public contracts is massively corrupt, according to protesters from the engineering sector.What was labeled the “‘Firmathon’ for the Dignity of Colombian Engineering” was in fact a set of parallel protests that took place last week in major cities across Colombia launched with the intent of drawing attention and signatures to a letter set to be sent to President Juan Manuel Santos on behalf of engineers and related professionals.
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19/05/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
El Salvador Catholic Church: Pawn or Player in Gang Truce?
Before Bishop Fabio Colindres told Salvadoran government mediators in early 2012 that he would participate in a secret negotiation to stop the fighting between El Salvador's two largest gangs, three top level Catholic Church officials had already told the government representatives that they wanted nothing to do with the talks. Colindres' decision to participate in the controversial gang truce could have far reaching consequences for the Church, one of El Salvador's most respected institutions.
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08/04/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia - How Colombia's Emerald Czar Outsmarted the Law
Colombia's famed "Emerald Czar," Victor Carranza, is dead of natural causes. As was clear when I interviewed him, Carranza, more than any other underworld figure in Colombia's history, knew how to play the bad guy without ever getting killed or being convicted.
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09/03/2013 | En Parrilla
Reports on Mexico's 'Disappeared' Put US in a Bind
After a slew of reports on Mexico's "disappeared," Mexicans are left to puzzle who the more than 26,000 victims are, and the US government has to question whether the country's navy, its most important ally in combating drugs, is really a trustworthy partner.
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03/03/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Reports on Mexico's 'Disappeared' Put US in a Bind
After a slew of reports on Mexico's "disappeared," Mexicans are left to puzzle who the more than 26,000 victims are, and the US government has to question whether the country's navy, its most important ally in combating drugs, is really a trustworthy partner.
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19/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Ciudad Juarez: Mapping the Violence
Juarez has always been a volatile place. It is a border city that draws huge numbers of migrants seeking work, and engenders large discrepancies between its wealthiest and poorest residents -- all factors associated with violence.
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14/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - How Juarez's Police, Politicians Picked Winners of Gang War
As a bitter war between rival cartels grinds to an end, Ciudad Juarez has lost the title of world murder capital, and is moving towards something more like normality. InSight Crime looks at the role politicians, police, and for-hire street gangs played in the fighting -- asking who won, and what is next for the Mexican border city.
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10/02/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Part I: The Emergence of Mexico's Small Armies
Mexico and Central America have emerged as one of the most dangerous areas on the planet outside of active war zones. The region is currently confronting unprecedented security challenges from street gangs, the growing presence of sophisticated criminal organizations and endemic corruption at all levels of law enforcement and government.
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16/01/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Survey Shows Drug Trade Filling Mexico's Federal Prisons
The first ever survey of inmates in Mexico's federal penitentiaries paints a picture of a booming prison population fed by the drug trade, and a corrupt and unresponsive justice system.
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21/12/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Part I - How the Zetas Took Monterrey
The Zetas have many sides. The group is at once sophisticated and ruthless, coordinating multi-caravan ambushes and sending hooligans to launch a wild assault on a police station. It has gang-bangers and Special Forces snipers on its payroll. It uses a sophisticated radio system and a machete in the same operation. It has a political platform that consists of shaking down the entire political class. And it has the accounting system of a multinational company, but the uncanny ability to destroy its own sources of income.
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21/12/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Part II - The Zetas and Monterrey Math
Just days after the fire at the Casino Royale, authorities captured five suspects, one of whom was a state policeman. Officer Miguel Angel Barraza Escamilla later admitted to investigators that he was a member of the Zetas. Investigators told the press that he had various jobs, including as a lookout during operations like the tragic shakedown at the Casino Royale and driving members of the criminal gang in stolen vehicles.
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21/12/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Part III - The Battle for Monterrey
In October, the Mexican Navy killed the Zetas' top leader, Heriberto Lazcano, alias "Z-3." Lazcano was a mythic figure, evident in the way the group marshalled several fighters to steal his body from the morgue following his death.
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21/12/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - The Zetas and the battle for Monterrey
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02/12/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico: Migrants - Part III: The Gauntlet*
According to Mexico's National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) — the only Mexican government entity that has released data on kidnappings of migrants — 9,758 migrants were kidnapped in 33 different "events" between September 2008 and February 2009.1 In a 2011 study the CNDH estimated that 11,333 migrants were kidnapped between April and September of 2010 in 214 different events.2 Extrapolating the CNDH's 2011 findings suggests that around 20,000 migrants are kidnapped per year in Mexico.
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03/09/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
What Google's Arms Trafficking Map Tells Us
The lights blanketing the globe on Google's latest foray into data visualization tell a hidden story of the gun trafficking business: that understanding the movement of ammunition is just as important as understanding the movement of weapons.
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29/08/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Report: Guadalajara Represents Mexico's Present, Future Crime Battles
A Southern Pulse report on the Mexico city of Guadalajara provides the framework to better understand both present events -- such as the series of roadblocks in Jalisco state this past weekend that sparked concerns of a return to bloody times of 2011 -- and the future.
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16/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Guatemala - Folk Singer's Death Shines Light on Nicaragua Police Corruption
The investigation into the July 2011 murder of Argentine folk singer Facundo Cabral has unveiled a devious criminal network based in Nicaragua -- a country that many consider a model for avoiding high-level mafia infiltration -- which may involve the country's celebrated police force.
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16/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Bluefields: Nicaragua's Cocaine Hub
The Nicaraguan city of Bluefields is a place where the narco-transporters rule, and cocaine floats off the coast and into the nightclubs.
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15/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Can Colombian expert reform Mexico's troubled police force?
Retired Colombian police chief Oscar Naranjo was appointed Mexico's new security adviser. But the bureaucratic and political challenges he will face in Mexico may surprise him.
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15/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Can Colombian expert reform Mexico's troubled police force?
Retired Colombian police chief Oscar Naranjo was appointed Mexico's new security adviser. But the bureaucratic and political challenges he will face in Mexico may surprise him.
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15/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Can Colombian expert reform Mexico's troubled police force?
Retired Colombian police chief Oscar Naranjo was appointed Mexico's new security adviser. But the bureaucratic and political challenges he will face in Mexico may surprise him.
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15/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Can Colombian expert reform Mexico's troubled police force?
Retired Colombian police chief Oscar Naranjo was appointed Mexico's new security adviser. But the bureaucratic and political challenges he will face in Mexico may surprise him.
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06/06/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - In Battle for Sierra Madre, Old Allies, New Foes Displace Thousands
A flood of villagers are fleeing their homes in the state of Sinaloa, driven out by a battle between two of the country's biggest criminal organizations -- the Sinaloa Cartel and the Beltran Leyva Organization -- for the crown jewel of Mexico's drug production: the Sierra Madre mountain range.
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16/04/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Gorilla in the Room: Mapping Pre-Summit Drug Policy Positions
Drug policy will not officially be discussed during this week's Summit of the Americas, making it the proverbial "gorilla in the room." In the first in a series of articles examining this beast of an issue, InSight Crime maps where each country stands on drug legalization.
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01/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Kidnapping bad for business? Why the FARC may actually mean what it says.
There are reasons – political, strategic and economic – to be hopeful the FARC's offer to end kidnapping may be genuine, writes guest blogger Steven Dudley.
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01/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Kidnapping bad for business? Why the FARC may actually mean what it says.
There are reasons – political, strategic and economic – to be hopeful the FARC's offer to end kidnapping may be genuine, writes guest blogger Steven Dudley.
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01/03/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Kidnapping bad for business? Why the FARC may actually mean what it says.
There are reasons – political, strategic and economic – to be hopeful the FARC's offer to end kidnapping may be genuine, writes guest blogger Steven Dudley.
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15/10/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'Iran-Zetas Plot' Reveals Sketchy Knowledge of Mexican Underworld
The alleged Iranian plot to pay the Zetas drug gang to murder a Washington ambassador sounds like the idea of someone who has little knowledge and even less contact with criminal groups in Mexico.
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28/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Arson Attack on Monterrey Casino Part of Battle over Gambling Industry
Buried in President Calderon's speech on a Monterrey arson attack which left more than 50 dead was the key to why it happened: the rise of illegal gambling establishments in Mexico under his watch, and the emerging battle in the underworld for control of these money-laundering havens.
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28/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Arson Attack on Monterrey Casino Part of Battle over Gambling Industry
Buried in President Calderon's speech on a Monterrey arson attack which left more than 50 dead was the key to why it happened: the rise of illegal gambling establishments in Mexico under his watch, and the emerging battle in the underworld for control of these money-laundering havens.
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27/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Uptick in Mexico 'Confrontation' Deaths Strikes Disturbing Pattern
A troubling new trend is surfacing in Mexico's fight against organized crime: deaths in confrontations between Mexican military personnel and suspected criminals are skyrocketing. The rise could mean many things, none of them good.
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27/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Uptick in Mexico 'Confrontation' Deaths Strikes Disturbing Pattern
A troubling new trend is surfacing in Mexico's fight against organized crime: deaths in confrontations between Mexican military personnel and suspected criminals are skyrocketing. The rise could mean many things, none of them good.
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25/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Uptick in Mexico 'Confrontation' Deaths Strikes Disturbing Pattern
A troubling new trend is surfacing in Mexico's fight against organized crime: deaths in confrontations between Mexican military personnel and suspected criminals are skyrocketing. The rise could mean many things, none of them good.
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25/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Uptick in Mexico 'Confrontation' Deaths Strikes Disturbing Pattern
A troubling new trend is surfacing in Mexico's fight against organized crime: deaths in confrontations between Mexican military personnel and suspected criminals are skyrocketing. The rise could mean many things, none of them good.
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16/08/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia's 'Zetas' Capture: Game-Changer or Headline Grabber?
Colombian police announced the capture of a link between major Colombian drug traffickers and the Mexico-based Zetas gang, but the claims are hard to square with the current reality of who moves drugs where.
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04/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Who Controls Tijuana?
In Tijuana, a dusty, sprawling border city that separates Mexico from one of the world’s most lucrative drug markets, a question hangs in the air: Who controls this trafficking corridor?.
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04/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Who Controls Tijuana?
In Tijuana, a dusty, sprawling border city that separates Mexico from one of the world’s most lucrative drug markets, a question hangs in the air: Who controls this trafficking corridor?.
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16/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Explaining the Tamaulipas Mass Graves
While authorities sift through the mass graves in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, we are left to sift through the reports to figure out what happened, and why.
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