This week, InSight Crime goes inside the battle among Colombia’s guerrilla groups in Venezuela and along the border...

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This week, InSight Crime goes inside the battle among Colombia’s guerrilla groups in Venezuela and along the border, where scores of people were shot dead in recent weeks, most apparently in cold blood. Also we reveal how the often-overlooked and landlocked nation of Paraguay has emerged as one of the top container smuggling hubs feeding the European cocaine pipeline.

Other notable reports from the region include a grisly campaign of cartel violence in the Mexican state of Zacatecas; a surge in maritime cocaine seizures off El Salvador’s coast; and the head of a Mexico search group for missing loved ones pleading with cartel leaders in Sonora to spare their lives.


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** Ex-FARC Mafia vs. ELN: a Fight Too Far at Colombia-Venezuela Border? ([link removed])
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The dissident 10th Front of the ex-FARC Mafia has been busy. After taking on multiple enemies on Venezuelan soil, the group now appears to be taking on a far larger criminal obstacle: the ELN.

On January 7, Colombia's Attorney General's Office issued a warning that the fight between dissident forces of the now-defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - FARC) and the the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional - ELN) was expanding. In a statement, authorities warned that ex-FARC forces were moving from their stronghold in Norte de Santander to attack the ELN in Arauca, a Colombian department on the border with Venezuela.

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** Landlocked Paraguay Becoming Major Cocaine Link to Europe ([link removed])
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The son of a former Paraguayan congressman has been accused of overseeing large cocaine shipments to Europe, illustrating how corrupt...

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** The Three Criminal Fronts Sparking Violence in Sonora, Mexico ([link removed])
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Murders have spiked in Mexico's northern state of Sonora, thanks to the volatile mix of a veteran drug trafficker's alleged return...

Do El Salvador Seizures Signal Pacific Cocaine Surge? ([link removed])
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The Horrors of Zacatecas Could Happen Anywhere in Mexico ([link removed])
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Sun, Samba and Smuggled Soybeans in Brazil ([link removed])
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How Brazil's Port of Santos Became Cocaine's World Trade Center ([link removed])


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The ex-FARC Mafia are a series of criminal structures that emerged during the peace negotiations between the...
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The National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional - ELN) is one of the two main guerrilla armies with...


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"Besides, as the think tank InSight Crime confirms, [the ELN] is a criminal organization that fights over all the principal criminal economies in Colombia as well as in Venezuela."
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