InSight Crime
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 00:00
Brazil's authorities have announced plans to send in troops to occupy one of the city's largest slums, as authorities attempt to "pacify" the shantytown complex before the 2014 World Cup.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 00:00
Police in Spain dismantled a cell of the notorious El Salvador street gang MS13.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014 - 00:00
The California gangs, which the report states are responsible for 90 percent of violent crime in high-trafficking border regions, also provide traffickers muscle.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 00:00
As promised social investment fails to materialize, critics are pointing to recent outbreaks of violence in other pacified favelas as evidence that a one-dimensional security approach cannot have long-term success.
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 00:00
Report by HRW documents the wave of violence sweeping the Colombia port city of Buenaventura, as rival gangs battle for control of this prime drug trafficking real estate, feeding massive displacement as citizens flee.
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 00:00
Authorities in Venezuela have detained three security officials linked to a cocaine haul in Italy involving the former secretary of ex-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in the second recent high-profile European drug trafficking case involving Ven
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 00:00
A dissident faction of a vigilante group in Guerrero has allegedly attacked community police, in a sign that this group, like their Michoacan neighbors, is experiencing major cracks in its leadership.
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 00:00
A documentary by indigenous communities in Panama has cast light on the catastrophic effect of illegal logging and ranching on the country's rainforest, in another example of the impact of criminal activity on rural communities and the environment.
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 00:00
Carlos Mejia, a deputy superintendent of the National Police who headed the operation, told IPS, "We suspect there are many more plantations in these enormous western mountains, so we are combing the entire region."
Thursday, March 20, 2014 - 00:00
The report examines the gap between the lofty rhetoric of preventing crime in Mexico and the government's methodology for actually pulling this off.