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This week, InSight Crime looks at the criminal actors menacing two of the region’s most dangerous borders.
We provide a snapshot of the fractured criminal landscape in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Once dominated by the Gulf Cartel and its paramilitary wing, the Zetas, the state now harbors a hornet’s nest of factions all warring to control pieces of the border underworld. Meanwhile, Colombia’s top military official says some 1,900 fighters belonging to Colombian armed groups are operating in four Venezuelan border states – a figure, we explain, that is difficult to pinpoint but has consequences for both countries.
Other notable reports from the week include a look at how Argentina’s latest sentencing of the Monos crime family boss will do little to curtail his influence from jail and a report on how firearms flooding into Ecuador is spurring extreme violence, including in its prisons.
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