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Weekly InSight  · August 16, 2019
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A Green Gold Rush: Potent Marijuana Big Business For Colombia Traffickers

While Colombia is known for its vast coca fields, the hillsides of its Cauca region are covered in another illicit crop ...READ MORE
Argentina’s Evolving Role in the Global Arms Trade

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

 
Bolivia Coca Growers Fight for Control of Legal Production

Violent tensions are flaring in Bolivia’s capital between hostile factions of one of the country’s coca growers’ unions ...READ MORE
LatAm Drug Traffickers Take Aim at New Zealand, Australia

A series of small seizures in which Argentine cocaine smugglers sought to reach New Zealand ...READ MORE
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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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MONGA BAY
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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