This week, the US State Department said it was pausing some aid and halting cooperation with Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office
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This week, the US State Department said it was pausing some aid and halting cooperation with Guatemala’s Attorney General’s Office after the firing of top anti-corruption prosecutor Juan Francisco Sandoval – potentially setting the stage for a showdown with Guatemala over the rule of law. InSight Crime looks at the cases that the celebrated prosecutor said made political elites too uncomfortable, and how his dismissal signals the end of any serious effort in Guatemala to fight corruption. In Colombia, meanwhile, coca cultivation is down, but cocaine production remains at record highs. We provide the three main reasons why this is the case. And in Mexico, with migrants taking more risks to cross the US border, human smugglers are profiting.
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** Despite Outrage, Guatemala Continues to Bulldoze Anti-Corruption Edifice ([link removed])
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The dismissal of Juan Francisco Sandoval, the country's leading anti-corruption prosecutor, marks the formal end of efforts to strengthen anti-corruption bodies in Guatemala.
On July 23, Attorney General Consuelo Porras fired Sandoval as head of the country's Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (Fiscalía Especial contra la Impunidad – FECI), an investigative unit that was set up with international assistance and spearheaded the country's most high-profile corruption investigations. Sandoval has since fled the country.
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** Colombia's Cocaine Keeps On Reaching New Heights: UNODC Report ([link removed])
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While the amount of coca crops in Colombia has dipped for the third year, the country's cocaine production continues to reach...
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** Migrants Disappearing, Dying as US-Mexico Border Remains Closed ([link removed])
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Reports of migrants dying and disappearing in the US-Mexico borderlands are becoming increasingly common, propelled...
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Self-Defense Group Emerges After Criminal Attacks in Chiapas, Mexico ([link removed])
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FARC Dissidents Want Old Land Back in Colombia's Caquetá and Meta ([link removed])
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Brazilian Authorities Clamp Down on Cattle Theft ([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 “G9 and Family” (G9 an fanmi – G9) is a criminal federation of nine of the strongest gangs in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince...
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Carlos Luis Revete, alias "El Koki," is one of Venezuela’s most wanted criminals and leader of the “megabanda"...
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"In the gang, there is a very clear rule. If they suspect that you are gay or if they discover that you are, they kill you. This is one of the first things you learn when you work with the gang, Carlos Martínez, screenwriter of “Unforgivable,” told InSight Crime in an interview."
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** Our Central America Investigator Featured on Politics and Drugs in Guatemala
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InSight Crime prides itself on being a go-to resource for media reporting on organized crime. In the latest example of this, our Central America investigator Alex Papadovassilakis recently spoke about Guatemala’s drug trafficking mayors in a report by Testigo Directo ([link removed]) , a Colombian news program broadcast in 36 countries. Papadovassilakis explained how high-level complicity on the part of mayors facilitates the cocaine trade in remote border regions where the State has little presence. The report dovetails with an InSight Crime investigation ([link removed]) into a town rocked by violent feuds between rival drug-trafficking families vying for control of local politics.
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