The 2nd annual international conference on Transnational Organized Crime will take place on December 3, from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Featured experts will provide sharp analysis on key criminal dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean and also discuss the wider panorama of organized crime in the region in 2020.
Learn more details about the conference, including the agenda and featured guests. To attend, please register here, or you can watch a live broadcast of the conference, transmitted in both Spanish and English.
El Salvador's murder rate spiked in 2015-2016 at more than 100 homicides per 100,000 residents, well above the second and third highest countries, Honduras and Venezuela, which both had 59 homicides per 100,000 residents (InSightCrime).
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Honduras had a homicide rate of 40 per 100,000 people in 2017, while Guatemala's was 22.4 per 100,000 inhabitants, among the highest in the Western Hemisphere, according to InSight Crime.
InSight Crime has joined forces with the renowned National University of Rosario to launch the Colombian Observatory of Organized Crime - A platform focusing on criminal dynamics in post-conflict Colombia
