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This week, Colombia’s top rebel, Nicolás Rodríguez Bautista, alias “Gabino,” said he was stepping down due to health issues. InSight Crime looks at how this affects the National Liberation Army (ELN), Colombia’s last remaining rebel group, which has become the country’s most powerful illegal organization, in terms of military capacity and territorial influence.
From El Salvador, we tell the story of the first MS13 gang member to be designated a terrorist. Our Venezuela Investigative Unit goes to a Caracas neighborhood under assault by gang boss El Coqui.
Another story takes us to Honduras, where the army’s handling of prison security faces a reckoning after gang members used grenades in a bloody battle. Costa Rica’s justice system will be tested with the launch of a corruption investigation that reaches to the halls of the presidential palace. And we provide three possible explanations for a string of shootings that has shaken the Mexican border city of Reynosa.
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