This week, the fallout from InSight Crime’s investigation into Memo Fantasma continues more than four months on; we looked at how Venezuela is...

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This week, the fallout from InSight Crime’s investigation into Memo Fantasma continues more than four months on; we looked at how Venezuela is criminalizing its own people trying to return home, how the architect of El Salvador’s 2012 gang truce is now being punished for it, and how attempts to pacify troubled areas in Colombia and Guatemala are having the opposite effect.


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** Colombia Vice President Threatens InSight Crime with Criminal Charges ([link removed])
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Following an outcry from media organizations and institutions defending freedom of the press, the complaint was quickly dropped ([link removed]) . InSight Crime is deeply grateful for the support received from the Committee to Protect Journalists, Human Rights Watch and Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa, among many others.

Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office has notified InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy McDermott of criminal proceedings brought against him by Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez linked to an investigation into the drug trafficker known as “Memo Fantasma.”

In the summons, Prosecutor Mario Hernan Barahona stated that the vice president had brought criminal charges against McDermott for “affecting her right to moral integrity, good name, dignity and honor.”

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** Colombia VP Drops Criminal Complaint Against InSight Crime ([link removed])
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Colombia’s Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez has withdrawn a criminal complaint alleging InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy...

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** Between Contraband and Coronavirus: Migration Dynamics at the Venezuela-Colombia Border ([link removed])
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As Venezuelan migrants return...

El Salvador Arrests General Behind 2012 Gang Truce ([link removed])
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Guatemala Imposes Martial Law Under Pretext of Combating Organized Crime ([link removed])
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Colombia’s Former FARC Fighters Abandon Reincorporation Camps ([link removed])
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Mexico’s Navy May Accept Alleged Role in 2018 Border Kidnappings ([link removed])
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El Mencho’s Hospital Rare Example of Infrastructure Built by Mexico Cartels ([link removed])
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** El Mencho ([link removed])
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Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” is the leader and founder of the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG)...
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The ex-FARC Mafia, also known as the FARC dissidents, are a series of structures that emerged during the peace...


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"Colombian Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez should drop her criminal defamation suit against InSight Crime journalist Jeremy McDermott, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today."
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The fallout from InSight Crime’s investigation into Memo Fantasma ([link removed]) continues more than four months on. Over that time, the Colombian Attorney General has confirmed the identity of the drug trafficker ([link removed]) masquerading as a businessman in Spain. A number of properties belonging to Memo have been seized by authorities. And a criminal complaint was filed – and quickly dropped ([link removed]) – by the Colombian Vice President. It has also become InSight Crime’s most read investigation, over 170,000 views and leading to over 150 media mentions and interviews.

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