Weekly InSight
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
Following an outcry from media organizations and institutions defending freedom of the press, the complaint was quickly dropped. 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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NewsAnalysis

Colombia VP Drops Criminal Complaint Against InSight Crime


Colombia’s Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez has withdrawn a criminal complaint alleging InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy...

Between Contraband and Coronavirus: Migration Dynamics at the Venezuela-Colombia Border


As Venezuelan migrants return...
El Salvador Arrests General Behind 2012 Gang Truce
Guatemala Imposes Martial Law Under Pretext of Combating Organized Crime
Colombia’s Former FARC Fighters Abandon Reincorporation Camps
Mexico’s Navy May Accept Alleged Role in 2018 Border Kidnappings
El Mencho’s Hospital Rare Example of Infrastructure Built by Mexico Cartels

Criminal Actors
Profiles of some of the notable criminal personalities and groups that have marked this week.

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El Mencho

Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho,” is the leader and founder of the Jalisco Cartel – New Generation (CJNG)...

Ex-FARC Mafia

The ex-FARC Mafia, also known as the FARC dissidents, are a series of structures that emerged during the peace...

Media Mentions
"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."
 

Impact
The fallout from InSight Crime’s investigation into Memo Fantasma continues more than four months on. Over that time, the Colombian Attorney General has confirmed the identity of the drug trafficker 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 – 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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