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This week, InSight Crime investigates how Lake Titicaca between Bolivia and Peru, the birthplace of the Inca Empire, has become a smuggler’s paradise ([link removed]) . Across its waters move illicit materials like mercury, contraband food and gas, and, as Peruvian coca cultivation booms, coca paste and cocaine.
We also analyze Europol’s takedown of a global “super cartel,” ([link removed]) that allegedly controlled one-third of Europe’s cocaine supply. Can this union of international criminals really be considered a monolithic organization?
And we assess Latin America’s mega-prisons ([link removed]) , which, in the midst of police crackdowns in Central America and an expected rise in prison populations, remain vital cultivators of gang culture.
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** Lake Titicaca: A Smuggler's Paradise in Bolivia and Peru
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Lake Titicaca, nestled high in the Andean mountains between Bolivia and Peru, has been many things to many people. The center of the cosmos, the legendary birthplace of the Inca Empire, and one of the world's largest freshwater lakes.
Today, it serves as a crossroads for varied criminal economies, from cocaine shipments to trafficking the frogs that live along its banks...
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** Was a Super Cartel Really Controlling Europe's Drug Trade? ([link removed])
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The arrest of a top Balkan drug trafficker in Dubai has revealed how some of Europe's leading drug traffickers were able to work...
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** Why Mega-Prisons Holding Tens of Thousands Won't Make a Difference ([link removed])
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A mixture of heavy-handed government policies, a lack of funding, and corruption has led to...
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Smugglers Leave Haitian Migrants Marooned on Desert Islands Off Puerto Rico ([link removed])
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The Capture of Hell Troop's Leader Could Mean Trouble Brewing in Tamaulipas, Mexico ([link removed])
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** The Impact of US Marijuana Legalization
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Next Wednesday, InSight Crime will publish its latest investigation on how the legalization of marijuana ([link removed]) in a growing number of US states is impacting organized crime dynamics in Mexico. Once the bedrock of drug trafficking organizations, these groups have since shifted their focus to powerful synthetic drugs like methamphetamine ([link removed]) and fentanyl ([link removed]) . This has upended the relationship they long maintained with small farmers cultivating cannabis, who are now looking to other crops or leaving farming behind altogether and migrating to major urban centers.
Read our investigation on December 7.
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** ‘Ndrangheta Investigation, Exclusive Interview With Suriname President Make Waves
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Two weeks ago, InSight Crime published an investigation into how Italian mafia clan the ‘Ndrangheta built a cocaine trafficking network from South America to ‘Ndrangheta-controlled Italian ports. The investigation generated interest far and wide, and was cited in Venezuela’s La Patilla ([link removed]) , CNA ([link removed]) and NTV ([link removed]) in Albania, and crime-specific news platform Antilavado de Dinero ([link removed]) .
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Our exclusive interview with Suriname’s President Chandrikapersad Santokhi was also hugely popular. The conversation, in which we discussed the efforts to curb the growth of organized crime in Suriname’s criminal economies, including cocaine trafficking and illegal gold mining, was cited in De West ([link removed]) , Waterkant ([link removed]) , and Suriname Nieuws Centrale ([link removed]) . News outlet Dagblad Suriname covered the interview in separate parts that can be seen here ([link removed]) and here
([link removed]) . In France, Le Point ([link removed]'%C3%89tat%20depuis,du%20Sud%20et%20l'Europe.) covered the news.
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The now-jailed former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias “El Chapo,” reportedly had many children...
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** MS13 ([link removed])
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The Mara Salvatrucha, or MS13, is perhaps the most notorious street gang in the Western Hemisphere. While it has its....
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