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Carefully selected panels of academics, journalists, civil society leaders and security officials will gather (virtually) to discuss issues such as how organized crime adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the serious increase in wildlife trafficking and other environmental crimes, and the growing complexity of criminality in Venezuela, including the links between politicians and criminals and the expansion of gangs within the country.
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Are criminal actors becoming part of the Maduro government in terms of providing illicit sources of income, exercising social control and taking on state functions? How are these actors and their criminal dynamics affected the borderland?
Moderator: Francine Jácome, Venezuelan Institute of Social and Political Studies (Instituto Venezolano de Estudios Sociales y Políticos - Invesp)
- Jeremy McDermott, InSight Crime
- Verónica Zubillaga, Simón Bolívar University, Activism and Cohabitation Investigation Network (Red de Activismo e Investigación por la Convivencia - REACIN)
- Wilfredo Cañizares, Fundación Progresar
- Nelson Bocaranda, Runrunes
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What are the social, political and criminal implications of massive deforestation of the Amazon and the growth in environmental crimes?
Moderator: Inge Valencia, ICESI University
- James Bargent, InSight Crime
- María Alejandra Vélez, CESED, Los Andes University
- Javier Revelo Rebolledo, Rosario University
- Mauricio Cabrera, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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How did organized crime adapt to the COVID-19 crisis? Have criminal economies been hit as hard as legal ones? How has the criminal landscape changed over the course of this year?
Moderator: Arlene B. Tickner, Rosario University
- Steven Dudley, InSight Crime
- Angélica Durán, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
- Mathew Charles, Rosario University
- Carolina Sampó, La Plata National University
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