Michoacán has been a cartel battleground for decades, as competing drug organizations have fought for uncontested access to a large seaport, according to InSightCrime.
In a 2018 report, the investigative organization InSight Crime said that Chinese criminal groups have been operating for years out of Asian migrant communities in Latin America and that they were connected to larger structures in China.
InSight Crime has joined forces with the renowned National University of Rosario to launch the Colombian Observatory of Organized Crime - the most innovative investigative platform focusing on criminal dynamics in post-conflict Colombia
