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Weekly InSight · August 16, 2019
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A Green Gold Rush: Potent Marijuana Big Business For Colombia Traffickers ([link removed])

While Colombia is known for its vast coca fields, the hillsides of its Cauca region are covered in another illicit crop ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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Argentina’s Evolving Role in the Global Arms Trade ([link removed])

While the seizure of hundreds of high-powered weapons in Argentina and a subsequent investigation offer fresh clues about criminal dynamics ...READ MORE ([link removed])


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Bolivia Coca Growers Fight for Control of Legal Production ([link removed])

Violent tensions are flaring in Bolivia’s capital between hostile factions of one of the country’s coca growers’ unions ...READ MORE ([link removed])

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LatAm Drug Traffickers Take Aim at New Zealand, Australia ([link removed])

A series of small seizures in which Argentine cocaine smugglers sought to reach New Zealand ...READ MORE ([link removed])

* Nicaragua Latest Central American Country to Deny Paramilitary Abuse ([link removed])
* US Targets Children of Venezuela President and First Lady ([link removed])
* Chile Militarizes Drug War, Ignoring Dangerous Regional Precedent ([link removed])
* Legal Loophole Allows Mexico Drug Lord Luxury Jail Conditions ([link removed])
* Risks for Mexico’s Public Transport Workers Growing in 2019 ([link removed])
* Prostitution Ring Highlights Vulnerability of Colombia Indigenous Communities ([link removed])
* Costa Rica and Panama Find Joint Success in Tackling People Smuggling ([link removed])

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According to a source in the Honduran military who spoke to InSight Crime, President Juan Orlando Hernández’s brother and former congressman Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, who was arrested by U.S. authorities on drug trafficking charges in November of last year, commanded criminal economies ranging from drug to timber trafficking in Olancho and eastern Mosquitia.

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AUGUST 13, 2019
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Today, the country’s military intelligence suggests at least 300 Venezuelan migrants are working for Colombian crime gangs, says Jeremy McDermott, co-director of InSight Crime, a foundation studying organized crime in the Americas. And InSight Crime believes that’s an underestimation — the number is likely much larger.

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AUGUST 14, 2019
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