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From October 17-21, InSight Crime’s Co-director Jeremy McDermott will be participating in the 11th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime in Vienna. 

During two separate side events on October 20 and 21, McDermott will discuss how criminal groups have taken advantage of migration in Latin America to expand their presence, and the alarming role that organized crime has played in furthering deforestation and environmental damage in the Amazon rainforest.

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 Side Event 1: Transnational Organized Crime, a powerful predator in the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest 

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 Side Event 2: Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) as a motor for migration and migration as a motor for TOC in Latin America.

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Ask US and Guatemalan authorities about Moises Humberto Rivera Luna, alias "Viejo Santos," and they will tell you the Salvadoran national is a top member of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) who is still calling shots from behind bars for one of the most feared criminal groups in the Americas; that he may even be ordering assassinations and organizing illicit schemes from Washington, DC to San Salvador.

But ask Rivera Luna, and the 53-year-old will tell you that he is “God-fearing” and “done” with gang life. 

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