This week, we’ve seen mixed signals on corruption across Latin America. Brazil’s Dario Messer, one of the region’s biggest money launderers, may...

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This week, we’ve seen mixed signals on corruption across Latin America. Brazil’s Dario Messer, one of the region’s biggest money launderers, may get off with little more than a slap on the wrist. Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto is accused of receiving bribes in a number of graft probes but has yet to be formally investigated. Meanwhile the new president of the Dominican Republic has vowed to end corruption in the police force, something far easier said than done.

Other highlights from the week included rising violence inside Honduran prisons, Chile’s struggle to contain troublesome funerals for gang members, and a spike in methamphetamine smuggling amidst the coronavirus pandemic.


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** Honduras Unable to Curb Rising Violence Inside Prisons ([link removed])
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Targeted killings, massacres, and deadly riots have all occurred in Honduras’ maximum-security prisons this year, putting a spotlight on how violence has spiraled out of control despite government efforts to stop it.

Since November 2019, at least 55 killings have taken place inside Honduras’ prison system, according to InSight Crime’s count of murders by inmates reported in local media. Officials did not respond to requests for these figures.

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** Is AMLO Getting Serious About Mexico’s Anti-Corruption Fight? ([link removed])
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After a lackluster start to confronting endemic corruption in Mexico, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador appears now to be...

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** Money Launderer Extraordinaire Dario Messer Finally Faces Justice in Brazil ([link removed])
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An agreement between a Brazilian court and Dario Messer, the key financier behind one of South...

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Honduras Cocaine Seizures Reveal Renewal of Drug Corridor ([link removed])
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Police Reform Top Concern for New Dominican Republic President ([link removed])
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Renewed La Línea Investigations Further Implicate Guatemala Officials ([link removed])
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Chile’s Gangs Embrace Wild ‘Narco-Funerals’ ([link removed])
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Profiles of some of the notable criminal personalities and groups that have marked this week.

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The Urabeños emerged from the ashes of Colombia’s paramilitary movement to become the dominant...
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The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) is a criminal group...


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"What this shows is that the whole northern Central American route that starts mainly in the Mosquito Coast of Honduras is as healthy as it has ever been."
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InSight Crime covers the full scope of organized crime in the Americas, and our examination of the nexus between organized crime and corruption is of great interest to our readers. In addition to this week’s reporting on corruption, some of our most widely read and disseminated reports recently include the challenges facing the new president of Suriname ([link removed]) , the small South American nation that is notoriously corrupt and a hotspot for drug trafficking and illegal mining, and a report on Honduras’ outsized graft in contracts ([link removed]) for COVID-19 supplies, which likely hampered medical workers’ ability to treat patients.
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