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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.

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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, 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 on YouTube, and in English on Facebook

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