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The highway between Bogotá and Medellín is one of Colombia’s worst sites for child sex trafficking and exploitation, as criminal groups abuse underage, underprivileged girls, InSight Crime reports.
A three-year investigation by InSight Crime also concluded that Venezuela became a haven for Colombian drug trafficking and smuggling. “The guerrilla was one of the first to develop cocaine trafficking through Venezuela, to markets in the United States and Europe, while the Venezuelan contraband gasoline flowed in the opposite direction."
InSight Crime has joined forces with the renowned National University of Rosario to launch the Colombian Observatory of Organized Crime - the most innovative investigative platform focusing on criminal dynamics in post-conflict Colombia