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This week, InSight Crime looks at how authorities' killing of a top militia leader in Brazil is likely to shake up Rio de Janeiro’s underworld. In neighboring Colombia, the re-appearance of a former FARC leader and veteran drug trafficker signals a shift in the landscape of dissident factions of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – FARC). Cuba takes aim at the illegal animal trade with a new law, while a gang pact in Haiti appears to be coming undone amid renewed attacks on a Port-au-Prince neighborhood. In one of Mexico’s most violent states, millions of rounds of ammunition are taken by gunmen during a highway robbery. And major trends in the latest European Drug Report show not only record seizures of cocaine at Europe’s ports but Mexican groups moving another illicit drug – methamphetamine – across the Atlantic.
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