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Weekly InSight · March 27, 2020
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Venezuela President’s Drug Trafficking Exploits Detailed in US Indictment ([link removed])

US prosecutors have charged Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his closest ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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Coronavirus Lays Bare Faultlines of Latin American Prisons ([link removed])

Fears of contagion amid the coronavirus pandemic have spurred deadly riots, mass breakouts, and crackdowns in several Latin American prisons, ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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Costa Rica’s Security Minister Talks Cocaine, Killings, and Organized Crime ([link removed])

Costa Rica has had a tumultuous start to 2020. The country seized the largest ever haul of ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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For Ecuador’s Fishermen, ‘Vueltas’ Rarely End in a Return ([link removed])

A new report sheds light on US authorities’ controversial practice of detaining Ecuadorian fishermen acting as drug mules in international waters and holding ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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Some $2 billion worth of cocaine, about a quarter of what was produced in Colombia last year, passed through Venezuela before making its way to other countries, according to Jeremy McDermott, co-founder of InSight Crime, a research group that studies organized crime. He called it a fairly typical year for the traffic.


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MARCH 26, 2020
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“The Cartel of the Suns today is a disparate network of traffickers, including both state and non-state actors, but all operating with the blessing and protection of senior figures in the Venezuelan government,” said a 2018 report published by InSight Crime, which studies organized crime throughout Latin America. “Without such political top cover, and paying off the correct people, drug smuggling operations are shut down.”

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MARCH 26, 2020
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