This week, InSight Crime launched a major investigation into how cocaine traffickers have come to prefer Europe as their principal market. 

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This week, InSight Crime launched a major investigation into how Colombian cocaine traffickers have come to prefer Europe as their principal market. The 8-part series -- a product of two years’ field work in more than ten countries – traces how Colombian groups have turned to lucrative European markets, with ports in the Netherlands and Belgium the main entry points. The investigation provides the most comprehensive look to date at the Latin American and European criminal actors shaping the European cocaine trade, which now rivals that of the United States.

InSight Crime also reveals that the United States provided training to the troubled Mexican police unit involved in the killing of 19 people, including 14 Guatemalan migrants, in Tamaulipas.


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When Mexico’s drug cartels pushed Colombian traffickers out of the US cocaine market, they seized control of the most coveted prize in the global drug trade. But the smartest traffickers soon began to turn elsewhere, to a market where the profits were higher, the risks were lower and the potential for growth was immense. They turned to Europe.

Cocaine to Europe: An Underestimated Threat > ([link removed])
The Colombian Cocaine Shift to Europe: the Business No-Brainer > ([link removed])
Spain: The European Base for Latin American Organized Crime > ([link removed])
The Italian Mafia and the Move Upstream > ([link removed])
Cocaine – The Criminal Steroid > ([link removed])
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The Rise of “Plata” over “Plomo:” The Cancer of Corruption > ([link removed])
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Join us on Tuesday, February 16, when InSight Crime holds an online seminar exploring the underworld and criminal activities in Honduras’ border regions. The event is the second of six seminars based on our two-year investigation into cross-border criminal dynamics in Latin America’s infamous tri-border regions: Central America’s Northern Triangle and the Southern Cone’s Tri-Border Area.

During the event, two InSight Crime investigators, alongside co-director Steven Dudley, will use our interactive online dashboard to illustrate field reporting on how cocaine is trafficked in Honduras’ border departments with Guatemala and El Salvador. InSight Crime will also present its new investigation into how organized crime has infiltrated the highest levels of Honduras’ ruling National Party.

The discussion will be moderated by Kurt Alan VerBeek ([link removed]) , co-founder and president of the Association for a More Just Society, a Christian organization focused on human rights and justice initiatives in Honduras.

The event kicks off at 3 p.m. Honduras time, and it will be broadcast live in Spanish ([link removed]) on YouTube, and in English ([link removed]) on Facebook

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** The United States, a Special Operations Unit and a Massacre in Mexico ([link removed])
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The United States provided training to a troubled Mexican police unit — several of whose members were...

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

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"The Cocaine Pipeline to Europe, co-produced by InSight Crime and the Global Initiative, reports on how soaring cocaine production in South America, rising demand among Europeans and the monopolization of the U.S. market by Mexican cartels has re-focused South American drug traffickers on Europe."
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** Top European Cocaine Experts Discuss the Cocaine Pipeline
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Our newly published investigative series, “The Cocaine Pipeline to Europe,” will be featured at an online seminar hosted by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime ([link removed]) , a Geneva-based organization that has long worked with InSight Crime. InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy McDermott will present key findings from the report and respond to questions from Laurent Laniel, a senior scientist with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA). A Q &A for session participants will be moderated by Tuesday Reitano, Global Initiative’s deputy director. The Zoom conversation takes place on March 2nd at 5 p.m. Central European Time (CET).
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