At least 117,492 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2023, putting the median homicide rate around 20 per 100,000 people. But homicide data in many countries …
Belize
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InSight Crime’s 2022 Homicide Round-Up covers more countries than ever before, with a major expansion into nations of the Caribbean.
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Since El Salvador’s government began a campaign of mass arrests two months ago in a gang crackdown, fewer than 60 suspected gang members fleeing the country have been arrested in …
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In 2021, most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean experienced a marked increase in murders. Resurgent violence was to be expected after some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns …
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While contraband cigarettes are a mainstay across Latin America, Belize has confirmed its status as a major port of entry for illegal tobacco into Mexico.
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Despite improving homicide statistics, Belize continues to regularly declare states of emergency due to crime rates. But do these actually make a difference?
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Criminal News
Chinese Broker Laundered Latin American Drug Money Around the World
by Elijah Jonesby Elijah JonesThe leader of a transnational money laundering network cleaned drug money through a scheme that included casinos, a seafood export business and Chinese bank accounts.
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A recent drug plane interception in Belize has unveiled the role corrupt officials have been playing in facilitating the nation’s use as a transit point for cocaine.
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While unrest gripped much of Latin America in 2019, it was the coronavirus that took center stage and ripped through the region in 2020, upending everything from commercial trade to …
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Unrest gripped much of Latin America and the Caribbean throughout 2019. From record violence in Mexico that recalled the darkest days of the drug war, to