This week, we delve into the long-awaited Final Report from Colombia’s Truth Commission, which spent three years...
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This week, we delve into the long-awaited Final Report from Colombia’s Truth Commission, which spent three years studying the many aspects of the country’s brutal civil conflict. Included were indications on the overlap between organized crime and the conflict, particularly the role of cocaine trafficking, seen as fuel for the fighting. The report will have huge influence over the proposed peace process between President-elect Gustavo Petro and the rebels of the National Liberation Army.
Elsewhere, we look at the evaporating respect for the Catholic Church among Mexico’s criminal groups, and we unpack the complex international clamber to decide exactly where Sergio Roberto de Carvalho, the drug trafficker known as Brazil’s Pablo Escobar, will face trial.
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** Colombia's Truth Commission Signposts Road to Peace for President-Elect to Follow ([link removed])
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The publication of the long-awaited Final Report from Colombia’s Truth Commission has crystallized the core issues that President-elect Gustavo Petro must overcome if he is to achieve the peace that the country yearns for.
In late June, the Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition ([link removed]) (Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de la Verdad, la Convivencia y la No Repetición) presented its final report on Colombia's history of conflict and provided dozens of recommendations for government policy. The report was presented directly to Colombia's president-elect, Gustavo Petro.
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** Have Mexico's Cartels Stopped Respecting the Catholic Church? ([link removed])
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Despite Mexico ranking as the second-most devout Catholic country on the planet, clerics have found no salvation from extortion...
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** Where in the World Will Brazil's Pablo Escobar End Up Next? ([link removed])
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The arrest of Sergio Roberto de Carvalho, one of the world’s most prolific and most wanted drug traffickers, in Hungary...
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Is El Salvador Willing to Extradite MS13 Leaders to USA or Just Playing for Time? ([link removed])
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Scandal at Haiti Customs After Over 100,000 Rounds of Smuggled Ammunition Seized ([link removed])
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Lake Itaipú - The Smugglers' Paradise Between Brazil and Paraguay ([link removed])
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Drug Traffickers in Fresh Round of Violence Against Peru's Indigenous Communities ([link removed])
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Express Extortion: Easy Credit Apps Come at a High Cost In Mexico ([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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As the biggest irregular army in Colombia, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias...
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** Sinaloa Cartel ([link removed])
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The Sinaloa Cartel, often described as the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization...
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"Some 28% of Peru’s declared haul is “dirty gold,” mined under fake permits and exported illegally, InSight Crime and Igarapé Institute found."
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** Turkish Traffickers Delivering Latin American Cocaine to Persian Gulf
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Last week, InSight Crime published the second half of an investigation piecing together the emerging role of Turkish cocaine traffickers in supplying Russia and the Persian Gulf, which are among the planet’s most profitable drug markets.
The article, which focused on the co-opting of the banana import business as a facade for smuggling cocaine, found a global audience. Several Turkish outlets cited the report, including Diken ([link removed]) , while there were also mentions as far afield as Armenia ([link removed]) and Germany ([link removed]) .
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** Criminal Career of Memo Fantasma Revealed
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InSight Crime has launched a second investigative series ([link removed]) on drug lord and paramilitary commander, Memo Fantasma, just as he looks set to walk out of prison in Colombia. It will reveal his full criminal legacy, from his earliest days in New York working for Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel, to his helping to set up the most brutal of Colombia's warring factions, the paramilitaries of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia.
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