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This week, InSight Crime provides firsthand accounts from Colombia's new generation of child soldiers on how they were recruited and the wide range of roles they played: errand boy, landmine builder, frontline combatant and assassin. Meanwhile, our Venezuela Investigative Unit reports on the arrest of “Chiche Smith,” a little-known but powerful kingpin who operated with impunity for decades. The unit also looks at the Venezuelan government’s big bet on Bitcoin, possibly to hide illicit activity and financial flows. Other highlights this week included criminal groups extorting Mexico resort construction in Cancun, a cartel-linked mayor in Guatemala running methamphetamines, and a new security minister with a very checkered past in El Salvador.
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