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This week, InSight Crime’s investigation into elusive drug trafficker Memo Fantasma made waves once again in Colombia after a hearing where his lawyer said he would file criminal libel accusations against InSight Crime Co-director Jeremy McDermott. Press freedom groups, which have long decried the use of Colombia’s criminal libel laws to silence investigative journalism, criticized the move to open an inquiry by the Attorney General’s Office.
On the organized crime front this week, we took an in-depth look at the security challenges facing the newly elected president of Ecuador -- a country that has become a major exporter of cocaine and has seen unprecedented gang violence recently. Other highlights included a look at how former Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales' ousting of an anti-corruption body has come back to haunt him; a review of a watchdog report on how pacts between gangs and public officials in El Salvador fuel disappearances; and a report on the arrest of a veteran Bolivian trafficker who once provided cocaine to Pablo Escobar.
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