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This week, InSight Crime launches a sweeping investigation that uncovers how the demand for wood, gold and beef has created a criminal bonanza that is driving the deforestation of Peru’s Amazon. The six-part series unravels the chain of actors prospering from the rainforest’s destruction and uncovers – step-by-step – the methods used to launder illicit forest products and usurp lands for farming and ranching.
In other news, Cali Cartel capo Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela, a pioneer of Colombia’s drug trade, met a quiet end in a US prison. In Venezuela, lieutenants of notorious gang boss El Koki ratchet up violence in his former Caracas stronghold just a few months after authorities gunned him down. And in Central America, El Salvador’s gang crackdown does not produce a mass exodus of the MS13, as neighboring countries feared.
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