This week, InSight Crime's new investigation highlights the corrupt elite networks operating in the extractives industry in western Honduras. Our reporting shows how these dynamics accelerated environmental destruction and violence, as corrupt-criminal blocs led by local politicians backed projects that harmed the environment and placed land activists at risk.
Also this week, a trend of Ecuadorian criminal leaders turning up in neighboring Colombia underscores how the country serves as both a refuge and a potential graveyard for bosses fleeing state crackdowns and intense violence back home; a new report shows how Mexico continues to overlook promising alternative models to improving public security and rely on a militarized approach to public security; Human Rights Watch’s latest report on Peru suggests that the country’s security crisis is also a political one, driven by a Congress that actively enables impunity while dismantling institutional checks; and the launch of an international manhunt in Mexico raises questions about why the government is only acting now, three years after the allegations first emerged.
This and more below.
