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This week, InSight Crime goes inside a Colombian school where teachers risk their lives to protect students from recruitment by criminal and insurgent groups. We also look at an international trafficking ring that aimed to smuggle cocaine to the lucrative European market via a guided torpedo attached -- by magnets -- to the hulls of cargo ships. Other reports from this week include fentanyl seizures skyrocketing in the United States, sanctions against Mexico’s Jalisco Cartel New Generation shedding light on its structure, and Brazilian money launderer Dario Messer moving millions through the export of emeralds.


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** Colombia Teachers – Last Line of Defense Against Forced Recruitment ([link removed])
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Colombia remains a hotspot for the forced recruitment of minors. In this, the last of a three-part investigation by InSight Crime, journalist Mathew Charles looks at how school teachers are trying -- unsuccessfully -- to thwart this recruitment.

Nancy Arboleda has a distinct air of authority. It probably comes from the two decades of experience as a teacher in a school in Tumaco, a small city in the corner of southwestern Colombia.

“We’ve lost 21 students here since 2012,” she said, counting them on her fingers.

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** Underwater Drone Would Have Secretly Delivered Cocaine to Europe ([link removed])
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A successful Detroit telecommunications businessman secretly bankrolled the development and construction of an underwater...

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** Fentanyl Seizures Explode Across United States ([link removed])
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Seizures of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl by customs agents in the United States have skyrocketed, underscoring potential shifts...

US, Mexico Sanctions Offer Insights Into CJNG Hierarchy ([link removed])
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Brazil’s Emerald Exports – The Latest Revelations About Dario Messer ([link removed])
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What Criminals Plan Via Encrypted Messaging Services ([link removed])
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Costa Rica Cocaine Theft Ring Relies on Crooked Agents ([link removed])
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Are Cartels Connected to Booming Truck Theft in Mexico? ([link removed])
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Ecuador’s Self-Defeating Anti-Trafficking Law ([link removed])
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US Announcement Against Corrupt Paraguay Official May Signal Shift ([link removed])


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

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The Tren de Aragua is Venezuela’s most powerful local “megabanda,” or large criminal gangs with more than 100...
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** Ex-FARC Mafia ([link removed])
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The ex-FARC Mafia are a series of criminal structures that emerged during the peace negotiations between...


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"It is more money for less risk. I see a deliberate decision by some of the top-level Colombian traffickers, based on sources who sat in a series of meetings in 2005-6, where the business decisions were made."

— InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy McDermott on cocaine smuggling to Europe


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** Leading Analysis on Venezuela Border Crisis
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A Venezuelan military campaign against a Colombian dissident guerrilla group active along the border has displaced thousands. InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy McDermott was a go-to source for news outlets -- including Bloomberg ([link removed]) and The Washington Post ([link removed]) -- on the burgeoning conflict, which he sees as a message from Venezuela to nonstate armed actors to respect an established Pax Mafiosa, or face the wrath of the regime. McDermott was also featured on investigative reporter Rafael Poveda’s news program ([link removed]) discussing the Tren de Aragua, ([link removed]) Venezuela’s most powerful megabanda. The gang, which police sources say has some 2,700 members, is a pioneer in Venezuelan organized crime,
extending its tentacles into Brazil and neighboring Andean countries.
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