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February 3, 2023 ([link removed])

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This week, InSight Crime reviews the herculean task ([link removed]) ahead of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as he sets about curbing environmental crime ([link removed]) ravaging the vast but rapidly shrinking ([link removed]) Amazon rainforest. The challenges facing the president are multifaceted ([link removed]) , and the criminal actors involved in exploiting the rainforest are truly global. His success is vitally important for the world.

As Haiti’s crisis enters another watershed moment, Acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry finds himself besieged not only by the gangs but by his own police force ([link removed]) .

And we review the attempts by Mexico’s Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) to control greater swathes of illegal mining in Michoacán state ([link removed]) , and the targeting of the Nahua Indigenous community.


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Our coverage of organized crime’s assault of the Brazilian Amazon this week builds upon past investigations on environmental crime in the Amazon Basin.

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And revisit our investigations on environmental crime in the Amazon, including in Colombia ([link removed]) , Peru ([link removed]) , and several other countries ([link removed]) .


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Next week, we will publish InSight Crime's 2022 Homicide Round-Up. This annual report offers a in-depth view into the murder rates across the region, as well as the dynamics propelling them.

This year, we expand our coverage to take in the Caribbean’s smaller nations, as homicides skyrocketed amid gang warfare. And we take a good look at the violence in traditional homicide hotspots, including Colombia, Haiti, and Venezuela.
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Read previous Homicide Round-Ups:
InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up ([link removed])
InSight Crime's 2020 Homicide Round-Up ([link removed])
InSight Crime's 2019 Homicide Round-Up ([link removed])


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** Haiti Gangs Embrace Political and Police Chaos ([link removed])
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Haiti's Acting Prime Minister landed in the capital after a foreign trip to be greeted by police rioting...

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** CJNG Control of Illegal Mining in Michoacán, Mexico, Claiming Indigenous Lives ([link removed])
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Indigenous communities are up in arms in Michoacán, Mexico, after a series of murders and...

Southern Mexico Extortion Suggests Migration of Central American Gangs ([link removed])
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Latin America Makes Little Progress Against Corruption ([link removed])


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** InSight Crime Interviewed by Associated Press
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This week, InSight Crime’s Co-director Jeremy McDermott was interviewed by the Associated Press on developments in Haiti as the country continues its prolonged collapse.

McDermott’s words were republished around the world, including in the United States with the Los Angeles Times ([link removed]) , the Washington Post ([link removed]) , and PBS ([link removed]) , in Canada with the National Post, in the Netherlands with The Post Online ([link removed]) , in Mexico’s Telemundo Nuevo Mexico ([link removed]) , and the Jamaica Observer ([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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The R Organization (Organización R – OR) is one of Bolívar state's fastest-growing mining gangs, often called sindicatos...
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Former police officer Jimmy Chérizier, alias "Barbecue," is one of Haiti’s most important gang leaders. He is best known for...


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"There is, democratically speaking, little-to-no legitimacy” for Haiti’s government, said Jeremy McDermott, a head of InSight Crime, a research center focused on organized crime."
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