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This week, InSight Crime reveals how human smugglers in Arizona are outsourcing the transportation of undocumented migrants to drivers recruited through social media, often with tragic results. 

We also analyze the series of largely ineffective measures taken by the Dominican Republic to stop Haitian gangs from spilling across the border, including a border wall. And we take a look at Netflix’s latest legal battle against Sandra Ávila Beltrán, Mexico’s so-called “Queen of the Pacific,” as we ask whether someone accused of drug trafficking should collect royalties from a narco-series that used her image.  

Featured

Human Smugglers Outsourcing Drivers, Wreaking Havoc on US-Mexico Border

Federal and local authorities in Arizona are sounding the alarm about a rise in the use of outsiders as drivers for human smuggling operations, a practice they say has led to some spectacular and tragic consequences for its participants, migrants, and bystanders. 

Members of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the investigative division of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona told InSight Crime that smuggling groups are recruiting people, many of them teenagers, via social media platforms such as Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram to drive to border areas and pick up undocumented migrants. 

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NewsAnalysis

Do Drug Traffickers Deserve Royalties from Narco-Series?


An accused Mexican drug trafficker is taking action against Netflix and Telemundo, marking the latest ... 

Dominican Republic Takes Tentative Measures against Haiti Gangs


Officials in the Dominican Republic have made a series of moves this year to try and prevent a spillover of ...
Colombia's President Petro Challenges US Anti-Drug Policy in UN Speech 
Haitian Prisoners Face Starvation and Death
Trinidad and Tobago Struggling to Put Brakes on Rising Homicide Rate
Corruption Puts Military Ammunition into the Hands of Paraguay’s Criminals

Impact

Extensive Coverage of our Chronicles of a Cartel Bodyguard 

 
Our recent investigation, A Cartel Bodyguard in Mexico’s 'Hot Land', received extensive media coverage, including in Mexico where SinEmbargo repurposed our investigation into a video seen over a million times on Facebook and YouTube. The piece also received well over a thousand interactions on InSight Crime’s social media accounts. But the impact goes beyond views. The story itself is important, because it provides a first-hand account of how and why people end up fighting in Mexico’s cartel wars, as well as why and how they break away from the cartels.  

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An InSight Crime investigation and a profile were also recently cited in two United Nations Human Rights Council Reports on Venezuela, Maduro's El Dorado: Gangs, Guerrillas and Gold in Venezuela and the ELN in Venezuela, respectively. 

Criminal Actors
Profiles of some of the notable criminal personalities and groups that have marked this week.

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G9 and Family

The “G9 and Family” (G9 an fanmi – G9) is a criminal federation of nine of the strongest gangs in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince....

'Alias 'Barbecue'

Former police officer Jimmy Chérizier, alias "Barbecue," is one of Haiti’s most important gang leaders. He is best known for...

Media Mentions
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
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"Initially, the gangs took "control of territory around the border and charged tolls to Venezuelans crossing through the illegal routes," Jeremy McDermott, co-director at InSight Crime, a center that studies organized crime, told AFP."

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