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In Venezuela, the government is literally fighting a ghost.

In mid-2021, a mysterious new criminal actor appeared in Venezuela. It became an obsession of the country's security forces, which pursued cells all over the country.

“They are not guerrillas, nor pseudo-guerrillas, nor paramilitaries,” President Nicolás Maduro said in September 2021. "They are the Tancol: terrorists, armed drug traffickers from Colombia. And these Tancol groups have been infiltrating Venezuelan territory."

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Next week, ahead of Guatemala’s general elections on June 25, InSight Crime will publish an investigation into the evolution of the political power blocs that have governed Guatemalan politics for decades.

These blocs monopolize the ministries and institutions that regulate the political, economic, and judicial life of the country. All have candidates in this year’s election, and none of them take kindly to outsiders. Just weeks ago, these political mafias leveraged their control of the country’s court system to eliminate Carlos Pineda Sosa, the leading presidential candidate, from the race.

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Honduras State of Exception Draws Attention

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InSight Crime’s Parker Asmann spoke to broadcaster NPR in the United States for its report on the eight call center workers killed in Jalisco, Mexico.

InSight Crime was cited multiple times in risk advisory organization London Politica’s report on violent crime in Latin American cities. And our report on the fall of ransom kidnappings in Argentina was included in the Global Investigative Journalism Network’s Top 10 data journalism stories of the week.

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