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Weekly InSight · May 8, 2020
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Six Ways Coronavirus is Impacting Organized Crime in the Americas ([link removed])

Criminal groups across Latin America have been forced to dig deep by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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Yet More Accusations Against Honduras President, But Will They Matter? ([link removed])

The latest accusations against Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández are the most ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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In Honduras, Coronavirus Lockdown is Enforced at Gunpoint ([link removed])

Militarized police forces are at the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic in Honduras. Yet after more than a decade ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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Coronavirus and Crime – Lethal Combo for Mexico’s Riviera Maya ([link removed])

Mexico’s tourism hotspots were already seeing visitor numbers drop due to the impact of violent crime, and with the coronavirus ...READ MORE ([link removed])

* Francisco Reyes Pacheco, Almost the Luckiest Man in Honduras ([link removed])
* Coronavirus Turns House Arrest Into Hot Button Issue in Argentina ([link removed])
* The Slow Death of Mexico’s Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel ([link removed])

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“The narcos play a numbers game. The drug trafficking organisations are happy to accept a 15 to 20 per cent loss-ratio, but with fewer containers to check in ports, the odds are stacked further against them than normal,” said Jeremy McDermott, co-director of InSight Crime, a Medellín-based thinktank that investigates organised crime.


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Jeremy McDermott, co-director of the Medellin-based thinktank InSight Crime, said: “People are prepared to pay more money because it’s much harder to get your drugs than before when you could go out and meet your dealer. Now you have to use the drug delivery networks or the dark web. For the retail drug dealer it’s a dream scenario. For the drug producer it’s frustrating.”
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MAY 7, 2020

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Drug Prices, Murder Rates, Prison Riots. Read about the full impact of Coronavirus on organized crime


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