Authorities in Costa Rica have announced 10 policies to address the country’s worsening security crisis, but the reforms do not tackle budget shortfalls and underlying causes of crime. Leaders of …
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Organized crime is responsible for at least half of the homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean, home to the world’s highest regional homicide rate, according to a new study. …
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Latin American countries have raised alarms about increases in medical fentanyl seizures in recent months. While there is some cause for concern, medical fentanyl is significantly different to the illicit …
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Homicides are higher than ever in Costa Rica as authorities struggle to find the coordination required to tackle issue. Drug trafficking and organized crime are behind the climbing murder rate, …
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Criminal News
Q&A: Latin American Children With Parents in Prison Get No Support
by Elijah Jonesby Elijah JonesLatin America’s constantly growing prison population has seen tens of thousands of children growing up without their parents, with dire consequences.
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As homicides rise in Costa Rica, local drug trafficking groups vie for control of the cocaine trade, while others the local marijuana market.
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InSight Crime reviews Latin America and the Caribbean’s cocaine seizure date from 2022 to find out what it reveals about regional trafficking.
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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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Countries across Latin America continue to make stubbornly little progress in the fight against corruption.
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Illegal Fishing in Latin America – Experts Consider Answers to Tough Questions at Event
by Mason Garciaby Mason GarciaThe consequences of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing are immediate and enormous across Latin America and the Caribbean.