InSightCrime
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 00:00
While cells of Brazilian groups have been reported to operate in Paraguay, the suggestion Brazilian criminals are buying up swathes of land and operating with impunity in the country gives new cause for concern
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 00:00
This is not some conspiracy to protect or favour certain groups -- it is a tactic employed by the DEA and other US agencies to allow them to focus efforts on priority targets
Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 00:00
In El Salvador, there are no women among the gang leaders or spokespeople, and none in public roles with the government, the mediators, or the "technical committee"
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 00:00
The Peruvian government has set a target of 30,000 hectares of coca crops to be eradicated in 2014, a more than 30 percent increase on the record eradication registered in 2013
Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 00:00
The image is potent: one of US spies sitting in dark rooms with brightly lit maps around them, checking infrared movements and then sending GPS coordinates to their Colombian comrades
Thursday, January 2, 2014 - 00:00
At its best, the truce is a window of opportunity, but one that might not come along again for a long time
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 00:00
"You have to put the police into the twenty-first century," he said. "But you don't have boots or radios. That is this country's problem."
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 00:00
The discovery was made in Limones, Esmeraldas province, in northern Ecuador on October 20.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 00:00
Since the beginning, the process has been slow and contentious; with some claiming the central government's goals were too lofty.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 00:00
The US intervention in Honduras may be too late and might provoke a violent backlash as it pins politicians between supporting its increasingly firm line and staying with that of the criminal interests