This week, we highlight the grim security failings across the region, as Honduras essentially legalized impunity, police in São Paulo became more ...
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This week, we highlight the grim security failings across the region, as Honduras essentially legalized impunity, police in São Paulo became more murderous than their Rio colleagues and Mexico City's public security secretary barely survived a brazen assassination attempt along a major thoroughfare. We also explore how gold prices are fueling illegal mining in Peru and where Venezuela's bird traffickers send their prey.
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InSight Crime was delighted to partner with Quinto Elemento Lab to publish their excellent investigation into the failings of Mexico City's highly touted criminal investigation database. We look forward to bringing you fascinating content from across the region due to several new partnerships signed during the lockdown.
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** A Fractured System – Mexico’s Criminal Investigation Network ([link removed])
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It was touted as the platform that streamlines criminal investigations in Mexico City. It was going to bring the city into the new digital era, streamline the infamous bureaucracy that has for years kept justice out of reach. It was supposed to be a platform worthy of the most important city in the country: an international tourism hub, home to the country’s president and a business nerve-center of the continent.
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** Attempt to Kill Mexico City’s Top Cop Puts Jalisco Cartel in Crossfires ([link removed])
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The ambush of Mexico City’s police chief by heavily armed gunmen ...
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** Brazil Police Killings Rise During Coronavirus Pandemic ([link removed])
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The states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro recorded upticks in the number of killings by Brazilian ...
Drop in Coca Crops, Increase in Colombian Cocaine ([link removed])
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Honduras’ New Criminal Code Will Help Impunity Prosper ([link removed])
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New Index Finds Corruption Worsening Across Latin America ([link removed])
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Soaring Gold Prices During Pandemic Fuel Peru’s Illegal Mining ([link removed])
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Los Pachenca Holding On in Northern Colombia After Leader’s Death ([link removed])
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Venezuela’s Birds Smuggled to Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Beyond ([link removed])
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** Criminal Actors
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Profiles of some of the notable criminal personalities and groups that have marked this week.
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** Jalisco Cartel ([link removed])
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The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) is a criminal group that has evolved as a ....
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** El Marro ([link removed])
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José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias “El Marro,” is the leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and one of those most responsible ...
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"According to researchers at InSight Crime, the [Jalisco] cartel is rapidly expanding and has contacts throughout the US and Latin America."
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InSight Crime’s interns are like no other – global, multilingual, and deeply interested in the dynamics of organized crime. And now we plan to create an internship program like no other, with help from a grant from the Seattle International Foundation. ([link removed])
Interns are crucial to our organization: collecting information from open sources, doing research and interviews for our long-term projects, writing for our website, monitoring regional news, tracking social media, and providing logistical support, among other responsibilities.
Of some 100 interns who have joined InSight Crime, 20 percent have gone on to work full time with the organization. Others have gone to positions in non-governmental organizations, academia, think tanks and government.
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