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This week, InSight Crime looks at how Xiomara Castro's win in the presidential campaign in Honduras was an overwhelming repudiation of the ruling National Party, which has long come under fire for fomenting narco-politics and corruption. We also launch an investigation into a case of corruption within Guatemala's social security agency that led to patients with kidney disease being provided inadequate care when receiving dialysis. Ultimately dozens of patients died or wound up in intensive care.

Other notable reports from the week include a flood of synthetic drugs at a California US-Mexico border crossing; how Brazil is obfuscating deforestation in its Amazon; and the signs pointing to Ireland becoming both a consumption market and transit point for South American cocaine.


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** Social Insecurity: The Case of IGSS-Pisa in Guatemala ([link removed])
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InSight Crime investigates a contentious deal between major pharmaceutical firm Pisa and the Guatemalan Social Security Institute (or IGSS, as it is known by its Spanish acronym). After the deal, which prosecutors said the IGSS green-lit despite the firm's lack of experience and infrastructure to provide a type of dialysis, dozens of patients with kidney disease died and scores of others suffered infections.

The accused in the IGSS-Pisa case spanned the country's elites, including high-level politicians, the military and Guatemala's powerful private sector. Their trial captivated the nation and provided a stress test for its fragile justice system. The case, though, eventually reached Guatemala's highest courts, where the elites implicated had already bought what some called an insurance policy to make sure they would never face prosecution.
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** 3 Security Takeaways from Xiomara Castro's Historic Win in Honduras ([link removed])
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Leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro appears to have ridden a wave of outrage to become Honduras' next president, beating out her...

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** Synthetic Drugs Flood California Crossing of US-Mexico Border ([link removed])
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A record seizure of methamphetamine and fentanyl at a US-Mexico border crossing near San Diego underscores how this corner...

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US Guns Flow into Haiti, Fuel Gang Violence ([link removed])
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Costa Rica Sabotaging Own Efforts to Protect Vulnerable Sharks ([link removed])
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Five Years into Colombia Peace Process, Ex-FARC Fighters Continue to Flee ([link removed])
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4 Reasons Why Ruin of Brazil’s Amazon Keeps Getting Worse ([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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Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández Alvarado is a former Honduran congressman, the brother of the...
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The ex-FARC Mafia are a series of criminal structures that emerged during the peace negotiations between...


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"Those incarcerated – thousands of whom have not even been formally charged with a crime – live in deplorable, inhumane conditions, reported InSight Crime, a think tank that studies the effects of crime on human rights, in a year-long investigation into prison conditions in Latin America published in January 2017."
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** Maduro's El Dorado Investigation Makes Headlines
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InSight Crime's investigation into the trafficking of illegal gold in Venezuela's Amazon region generated impact on both social media and in the press. Besides being republished and mentioned by several outlets, the report was noted by Miguel Henrique Otero ([link removed]) , editor of Venezuelan national newspaper El Nacional. In an editorial, Otero said that "the reading of the InSight Crime report should be a priority." He also concluded that the testimony and sources gathered in the investigation reveal that the mining region, where more than 100,000 Venezuelans live, is being terrorized by violent armed groups that authorities cannot contain. The report was discussed on social media as well, particularly the revelation of a criminal syndicate known as the R Organization (Organización R). The impact of this illegal group on miners in the Bolívar region (the report on Organización R comprises the third chapter
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