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This week, InSight Crime’s on-the-ground investigation revealed how a cell of El Salvador’s MS13 street gang came to rule a coastal cocaine smuggling route, a rare example of the gang making inroads on cross-border drug trafficking. We also look at how US prosecutors, who usually go to painstaking lengths not to implicate heads of state in drug trafficking, have made an exception in the case of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. Other notable reports this week included a dissection of the criminal landscape in the State of Mexico, where 13 police officers were gunned down in an ambush; a look at how drug trafficking fueled Ecuador’s deadly prison gang riots; and a report on how the killing of a young woman revealed systemic sexual violence in Venezuela’s prisons.
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