Hundreds of Venezuelan women have become victims of human trafficking networks in recent years. But Lismar’s story shows how these networks are adapting new strategies, like increasingly recruiting victims beyond …
Peru
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Financial vulnerability is driving a huge increase in reports of people in Peru turning to “gota a gota” loans.
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Sandwiched between the world’s top cocaine producers, Colombia and Peru, Ecuador has become a hub and base for several transnational criminal networks. Its long coastline and large container ports make …
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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 …
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Criminal News
Peruvian Gold Mining Gangs Launch Increasingly Brazen Attacks
by Jakob Kochby Jakob KochThe growth of gold mining gangs in Peru’s La Libertad province has led to a deteriorating security situation, with unprecedented attacks on security forces and one of the country’s largest …
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Coca prices have collapsed in parts of Colombia amid record hectares of cultivation. Could oversupply do what years of eradication have failed to achieve, prompting coca farmers to switch to …
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Between the decrease in forest loss in Colombia and Brazil and the Amazonian summit, this year represented a small victory in the battle against deforestation in the region. But this …
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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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Pablo Escobar and his Medellín Cartel transformed the cocaine trade during their heyday in the 1980s. But the 30 years since the kingpin’s death have shown that the business remains …
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Residents in Lima, Peru violently protested against Venezuelan extortion gangs in the city such as the Tren de Aragua cell the Gallegos. The protests suggest frustration at increasing extortion is …