InSight Crime hasn’t just grown since its launch in 2010 – it has evolved. And so has the criminal landscape we cover.
Over the last 15 years, organized crime in the Americas has undergone profound shifts, which we’ve tracked in real time:
The rise of synthetic drugs and the reshaping of regional drug markets
The boom – and now bust – of migrant smuggling economies
Marijuana legalization efforts and shifting criminal strategies around the most-used drug
The unstoppable rise of environmental crime and its consequences for climate change
Cryptocurrency’s move from the margins to the criminal mainstream
Colombia’s repeated attempts to negotiate peace with armed groups
To close out the year, we’ve pulled together a package of coverage on all these dynamics in our annual GameChangers Series. This will be the 10th edition of this series, and we’re excited to share it with you over the next two weeks.
We will be taking a break while we publish that special series, and you’ll get each new installment straight to your inbox instead of this newsletter. But we will be back in the new year with more of the latest news and analysis on organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean.
