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This week, InSight Crime explores criminal dynamics on the border between Suriname and French Guiana ([link removed]) . For years, contraband has flowed across the Maroni River, a natural border between the countries, with overwhelmed customs officials struggling to stop it. Now, cocaine traffickers cross the river, moving Colombian cocaine from Suriname into French Guiana and onwards to the streets of France.
We also analyze how Venezuela’s scrap metal industry ([link removed]) has become an attractive illicit economy for public officials, private employers, the military, and criminal groups.
We examine how attempts by the CJNG ([link removed]) to displace the Gulf Cartel ([link removed]) are behind recent violence ([link removed]) in Tamaulipas, Mexico, and interview ([link removed]) two Homeland Security officials to understand the dynamics between cartels along this part of the US-Mexico border.
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** Europe's Weakest Border? Smuggling Between Suriname and French Guiana ([link removed])
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Stuart Codrington favors the direct approach. Within five minutes of our interview starting, the Surinamese border control officer grabs his gun, shoves it in his pocket, and takes us out of his tiny, air-conditioned office into the afternoon heat.
Soon, we are trundling along a badly maintained road in his white pickup. It's a short trip to the edge of the Maroni River, which forms a natural border between Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas department of France. On the Surinamese side is the town of Albina. Across the river sits Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni. Codrington slows down as we turn onto a path running along the water.
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** How Scrap Metal Became a Criminal Enterprise in Venezuela ([link removed])
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Venezuela's nationalization of the scrap metal industry opened the doors to a state-sponsored free-for-all, with...
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** Is Mexico’s CJNG Pushing the Gulf Cartel from Tamaulipas? ([link removed])
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The speculation regarding the latest mega-battle for control over Mexico’s underworld started with a two-minute video that...
Gulf Cartel Still ‘Public Enemy No. 1’ on US-Mexico Border: Homeland Security ([link removed])
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A History of the Caribbean's Most Powerful Drug Kingpins ([link removed])
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** Impact of Fentanyl and Methamphetamine Precursors Investigation Continues
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Our investigation on the flow of precursor chemicals for the production of fentanyl and methamphetamine in Mexico has been heavily cited by regional news outlets for a second week. Among them are Milenio ([link removed]) , El Economista ([link removed]) , Sin Embargo ([link removed]) , and La Verdad ([link removed]) .
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Our write-up of the Caribbean’s most important drug kingpins also made the front page of national Dominican newspaper, El Día ([link removed]) , as well as Remolacha ([link removed]) .
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Profiles of some of the notable criminal personalities and groups that have marked this week.
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** CJNG ([link removed])
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The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación - CJNG) is a criminal group that...
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** Gulf Cartel ([link removed])
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The Gulf Cartel is one of the oldest and most powerful of Mexico’s criminal groups but has lost territory and...
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"An investigation by InSight Crime said that John 40 was an ally of the First Front in Colombia, which may be the largest organization in an alliance of FARC dissidents in terms of individuals and weapons."
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