InSight Crime
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 - 07:12
Costa Rica’s top security official has called for a new government body that specializes in fighting organized crime and drug trafficking, amid concerns over rising violence levels.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 07:01
El Salvador has once again registered the highest number of homicides since the end of the country's civil war, raising doubts about the government's short-term security strategy.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 - 06:54
A series of corruption scandals implicating high-level government officials have rocked Honduras and Guatemala in recent months. In both countries, the governments' social security agencies are at the forefront of the crisis.
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 06:47
Once again, there are significant discrepancies between how much coca the White House estimates is grown in Colombia, versus numbers from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 06:53
Drug traffickers are reportedly increasing their use of maritime routes to carry cocaine through El Salvador, a sign that criminals continue to adapt in accordance with interdiction efforts.
Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 06:42
A report from a non-governmental human rights organization highlights the poor conditions of Honduras' prisons, an issue exacerbated by judicial delays and the practice of pre-trail detention, which has led to severe overcrowding.
Friday, June 26, 2015 - 07:21
Adding to an already long list of corruption scandals in Guatemala, authorities have dismantled an alleged corruption network within the Guatemalan national police force -- an agency that was supposed to be improving its effectiveness and capacity to combat crime and insecurity.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 07:38
Security officials have implied that the majority of the victims are the result of gang-on-gang violence or internal purges within street gangs. However, local newspaper El Diario de Hoy investigated a sampling of murder cases from five municipalities, and determined that less than half of the victims had clear links to street gangs.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 - 07:03
Adenike Stephenson, regional coordinator for Jamaica's Citizen Security and Justice Program names her two biggest challenges: marijuana and scamming.
Thursday, June 18, 2015 - 07:11
Reported seizures of firearms in Colombia and Mexico far outstrip those of war-torn Iraq, according to a new United Nations report, a reflection of the huge demand for illicit weapons among organized crime syndicates in Latin America.