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This week, InSight Crime looked at a number of significant advances in the United States’ ongoing attempts to bring down transnational criminal organizations. The arrest of Álex Saab, a crucial ally of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, was the most eye-catching piece of news. But the US also issued major new rewards for Colombian drug traffickers, speculation swirled that feared Mexican cartel enforcer, “La Barbie,” may have been a DEA informant and Honduras’ Tony Hernández saw renewed links to the Sinaloa Cartel.
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