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Weekly InSight · April 10, 2020
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Colombia VP Marta Lucía Ramírez: ‘Memo Fantasma is Not My Husband’s Associate’ ([link removed])

In the investigation, “The Invisible Drug Lord: Hunting ‘The Ghost,’” InSight Crime reported ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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Latin America Under Threat of Cyber Crime Amid Coronavirus ([link removed])

Online scams, ransomware attacks and phishing email schemes have proliferated in Latin America amid the coronavirus pandemic, exposing the dangers hackers ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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Mexican Cartels – Venezuela’s Uninvited Guests Here to Stay ([link removed])

Talk of Mexico’s cartels in Venezuela has become commonplace, so much so that one town has been re-baptized after one of the world’s most notorious criminal ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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From Face Masks to Avocados, the Boundless Creativity of Drug Traffickers ([link removed])

Drug traffickers are nothing if not innovative. And faced with increasingly ...READ MORE ([link removed])

* Argentina Puts Seized Assets to Good Use in Coronavirus Fight ([link removed])
* Mexico’s Environmental Activists Killed for Resisting Infrastructure Projects ([link removed])
* Coronavirus Could Worsen Grave Health Crisis in Venezuela Prisons ([link removed])

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InSight Crime reports that a criminal group aligned with Mexico’s La Unión Tepito Cartel, known as the “Marco Polos,” has been making trips to China since 2010 — sourcing fake clothing, jewellery and more for re-sale in Mexico. But in the pandemic, the Marco Polos can’t make China trips. This means the local sellers, since late January, have had little or no product to sell, and are begging the cartel for an ease-up in the normal extortion demands. They can’t keep giving the cartel people a slice of a trade that no longer exists, they say.

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NATIONAL POST ([link removed])
APRIL 8, 2020
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Ramirez’ name popping up in the investigation into Memo Fantasma surprised even the director of transnational crime website InSight Crime, Jeremy McDermott, who has known the VP for years.

Ramirez told InSight Crime she had asked former National Police Chief Oscar Naranjo to do a background check on the narco / businessman before agreeing to business.


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COLOMBIA REPORTS ([link removed])
APRIL 9, 2020
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The Invisible Drug Lord: Hunting 'The Ghost' ([link removed])
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This is the story of “Memo Fantasma” or “Will the Ghost,” who started life in the Medellín Cartel, funded the bloody rise of a paramilitary army, and today lives the high life in Madrid.

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