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The PCC escape highlights that organization’s expansion into Brazil’s neighbors (see this excellent interview in InSight Crime about the organization). Both the Sinaloa Cartel and MS-13 have organizations and leadership that move people and illicit products relatively easily across Central America’s borders.
According to information collected by the organization Equipos Consultores, since 2009 security has been the issue that concerns Uruguayans most, above education or unemployment. Also, according data gathered by InSight Crime in 2018, Uruguay comes in fourth in South America, for highest homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants, after Venezuela, Brazil and Colombia.
InSight Crime has joined forces with the renowned National University of Rosario to launch the Colombian Observatory of Organized Crime - A platform focusing on criminal dynamics in post-conflict Colombia
