Deep in the vast jungle of the Amazon, critical primary forests are being razed to mine gold, grow coca, and harvest timber.
Deep in the vast jungle of the Amazon, critical primary forests are being razed to mine gold, grow coca, and harvest timber.
Illegal mining is by far the most widespread and insidious environmental crime occurring in the Amazon’s tri-border regions.
In the Amazon’s tri-border areas, illegal logging is expanding, due to the low cost of land, and few controls on deforestation.
Tren de Aragua became Venezuela’s most feared homegrown gang by first thoroughly controlling the prison of Tocorón and then, the neighborhood of San Vicente.
The FBL were a useful criminal ally to Maduro’s regime in Venezuela. They were granted favors, political power, and impunity, before seeing a precipitous downfall.
President Maduro has proven highly resilient, weathering sanctions abroad and an economic crisis at home. His hybrid state creation helped him to do so.
Extortion, black markets, repressing political opponents: The Cupaz react with brutal efficiency to opportunities across Venezuela.
Venezuela’s Presidents Chávez and Maduro, to secure long-term power, ensured the country’s criminal groups would answer to them.
US policy has exposed migrants to a greater risk of being killed, disappeared, and kidnapped in isolated stretches of the US-Mexico border.
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