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An ambitious mayor, a well-connected deputy mayor, dirty cops, a corrupt judge, and a lot of marijuana. This is the story of Itatí, the sleepy town that went from religious hub to key stop on Argentina’s marijuana highway, and the mayor that helped make it happen.

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On Tuesday, March 23, InSight Crime is wrapping up its six-part series on our two-year investigation into cross-border criminal dynamics in the Southern Cone’s Tri-Border Area and Central America’s Northern Triangle with an event on El Salvador. We will profile underworld actors and illicit economies in seven border departments through our online dashboard mapping tool. The event will also explore the country’s central role as a money laundering hub and gang headquarters. The discussion -- which will include presentations by InSight Crime investigators Ángela Olaya, Alicia Flórez and Victoria Dittmar -- will be moderated by Arnau Baulenas, a lawyer with the Human Rights Institute at San Salvador’s Central American University (Instituto de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas — IDHUCA). The event starts at 3 p.m. El Salvador time and will be broadcast in Spanish on YouTube and in English on Facebook. 

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