Weekly InSight
This week, InSight Crime uncovers ties between El Salvador's attorney general, Rodolfo Delgado, and a businessman who allegedly laundered money for the formidable street gang MS13. In a collaborative report with Salvadoran outlet El Faro, we explain how as a private defense attorney, Delgado had defended the alleged money launder. Upon being named AG, Delgado’s first act was to disband the unit responsible for investigating his former client and name the judge who exonerated him as his number two.

We also visit a methamphetamine lab in the state of Sinaloa -- the epicenter of synthetic drug production in Mexico -- and chronicle the environmental damage synthetic drug production causes. And, we sit down with VICE News’ Keegan Hamilton to discuss a recent investigation that looks into claims that the purity of cocaine in the United States is declining. 

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El Salvador's Attorney General Worked for Top MS13 Ally

Over a 22-year career in El Salvador's Attorney General's Office, Rodolfo Delgado held some of the most critical positions in the country's judiciary, including heading the anti-organized crime unit and serving as an advisor to the attorney general. In 2018, after leaving the government, he defended Jorge Manuel Vega Knight, a man accused of being a collaborator for the MS13 and who was later acquitted. In May 2021, Delgado was named Attorney General. One of his first actions in this new role was to dismantle the Special Investigation Commission (Comisión Especial de Investigación), a group of prosecutors who investigated his former client...

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NewsAnalysis

Methamphetamine Production in Mexico is Toxic for the Environment


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Is the Quality of Cocaine Worse in the United States than in Europe?


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Why Money Launderers in Honduras May Be Getting Away With It
How Illegal Logging Became National Security Crisis in Chile
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Countdown Begins to Trial of Mexico's Former Security Minister

Impact

InSight Crime ON AIR

 
InSight Crime Co-director Steven Dudley was interviewed for the podcast The Rosenberg Case: A Tale of Murder, Corruption, and Conspiracy in Guatemala, which explores the potential involvement of then president, Álvaro Colom, in the murder of an influential Guatemalan lawyer. Listen to it here. 

Read our Guatemala Coverage here >

InSight Crime Managing Editor Chris Dalby was also interviewed by The World, an international affairs radio program that reaches 3 million listeners a day in the United States, about organized crime in Uruguay. Listen to it here. 

Read our Uruguay Coverage here >

Meanwhile, our other co-director, Jerry McDermott, was featured in a video piece produced by The Economist on Belgium, Europe's new cocaine capital.

Read our coverage of the Cocaine Pipeline to Europe here >

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

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Juan Orlando Hernández

Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado, Honduras’ former president, is facing trial on US drug ...

Sinaloa Cartel

The Sinaloa Cartel, often described as the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization ...

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