This week, InSight Crime’s new investigation, based on three years of on-the-ground reporting across multiple countries, sheds new light on the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua — how it has evolved, how it operates today, and how it may change in the future.
Also this week, Bolivia’s election results could reshape how the Andean nation addresses cocaine production, organized crime, and protection of the Amazon; the erosion of procedural guarantees in El Salvador opens the door to the persecution of Salvadorans beyond the country’s borders; and Ecuador’s announcement that it will withdraw military forces from prisons marks the beginning of the end of a policy that has been an inflection point in the country’s criminal history.
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