More than six months after Latin America’s deadliest female prison massacre, the Honduran government is slowly moving forward in its investigation into the atrocity. But the country still lacks comprehensive …
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Organized Crime Ranked Top Political Risk in Critical LatAm Election Year
by Elijah Jonesby Elijah JonesOrganized crime and insecurity are the primary political risks facing Latin America in 2024 as the region enters a pivotal election year, according to a new report that underscores the …
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Colombian authorities are struggling to disrupt extortion schemes run by imprisoned Venezuelan gang members, mounting a series of recent arrests but failing to prevent those incarcerated from continuing their criminal …
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Five groups have stood out in InSight Crime’s coverage during 2023. We analyze why, and what they tell us about criminal developments in Latin America and the Caribbean over the …
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US Terrorism Trial of MS13 Leader Could Expose El Salvador Gang Talks
by Sabra Bozychby Sabra BozychA top leader of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges filed by US federal prosecutors, marking the beginning of a case that may blow the lid …
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Honduras and El Salvador: Two States of Emergency With Very Different Results
by Mason Garciaby Mason GarciaEl Salvador’s success in fighting gangs with a state of emergency inspired Honduras to do its own version, but one year on, two new reports suggest the country is seeing …
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Bukele’s government had once made a pact with the gangs. Now he was making war. In the first two months of the state of emergency, authorities arrested over 33,000 people, …
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Investigations
‘Too Many Soldiers’: How Bukele’s Crackdown Succeeded Where Others Failed
by Elijah Jonesby Elijah JonesIn March 2022, the Bukele administration launched a historic crackdown, implementing a state of emergency that has, for the past 20 months, given his government almost free rein in its …
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The road to El Salvador’s state of emergency has been long and bloody. The small Central American nation spent decades engulfed in some of the most intense spates of violence …
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The gangs’ demise has radically altered the country’s criminal landscape, liberating swathes of territory and illegal markets from criminal control. The nation’s homicide rate, which had already sunk to historic …