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This week, InSight Crime investigates how criminal groups in Colombia are financing themselves through illegal gold mining, a toxic trade that leaves Amazon forests razed and rivers polluted with mercury. In Mexico, a loss of profits from marijuana smuggling has prompted cartel operatives in the border state of Chihuahua to push into other enterprises, including controlling alcohol sales and illegal logging. We also speak to Guatemala’s exiled anti-corruption prosecutor, Juan Francisco Sandoval, on the warrant issued for his arrest by his own government.
Other notable reports include a Cabo Verde court approving the extradition of Colombian financier Álex Saab, an accused money launderer and fixer for Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro. Our Venezuela Investigative Unit looks at a little-known gang that recently kidnapped and beat a soldier to warn off the military. And in Honduras, a businessman suffering from complications of COVID-19 is shot dead in an intensive care unit by hitmen dressed as doctors.
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