InSightCrime
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 00:00
InSight Crime's field research into the the Urabenos operations also calls into question the ICC's characterization of the group as a vertically integrated structure with a leadership that exerts direct control over all its members
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 00:00
Bus company owners consulted by the newspaper stated that in December the street gangs responsible for the crime imposed significant increases in extortion fees
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 00:00
While the EPP have accused the government of involvement in drug trafficking, there are signs the rebels themselves may be earning money by taxing traffickers or providing security for drug shipments
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 00:00
Rather than arresting the Templars, the soldiers and militarized police merely patrol and man checkpoints, and seem more like scarecrows than the region's saviors
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 00:00
The "Law of Aerial Exclusion" authorizes the Air Force to shoot down suspected drug planes flying through the country's airspace
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 00:00
Colombia's most prominent criminal organization, the Urabenos, have publically claimed responsibility for a major decline in murders in Medellin in 2013
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 00:00
The Shining Path will almost certainly try to block eradication efforts in the VRAEM, and the aim of destroying 75 percent of the coca in the areas they operate is extremely ambitious
Friday, January 10, 2014 - 00:00
The Paredes organization was one of the most powerful of Guatemala's so-called transportista clans -- groups hired to move drug shipments
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 00:00
Officials in Peru have identified four land and water routes used to traffic cocaine to Bolivia and one used to move drugs to Brazil
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 00:00
Authorities only seized 70 tons of cocaine in 2013, down from the record 241 tons seized in 2012