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This week, the top story was the reported killings of ex-FARC commanders Darío Velásquez, alias "El Paisa," and Henry Castellanos Garzón, alias "Romaña," in Venezuela. InSight Crime looks how their deaths come as a major blow to the core of the Second Marquetalia, a dissident force formed two years ago by key former guerrilla leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - FARC). Other big news included US sanctions on two officials in the administration of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, accusing them of corruption and having secretly negotiated with the country’s deadly street gangs. We also report on the indictment of a transnational labor trafficking network that exploited Mexican and Central American agricultural workers on a US work visa program.
Other notable reports from the week include raids in Panama revealing that Colombia’s Urabeños, also known as the Gulf Clan (Clan del Golfo), corrupted officials who assisted in the group’s cocaine trafficking operations; the head of a Mexican oil theft gang escaping in a violent prison break; and three ex-FARC commanders becoming the first people charged under Colombia’s tough new environmental crime law.
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