Weekly InSight
This week, InSight Crime reviews the herculean task ahead of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as he sets about curbing environmental crime ravaging the vast but rapidly shrinking Amazon rainforest. The challenges facing the president are multifaceted, 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. 

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

Featured

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, Peru, and several other countries.

Coming Soon

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.

NewsAnalysis

Haiti Gangs Embrace Political and Police Chaos


Haiti's Acting Prime Minister landed in the capital after a foreign trip to be greeted by police rioting... 

CJNG Control of Illegal Mining in Michoacán, Mexico, Claiming Indigenous Lives


Indigenous communities are up in arms in Michoacán, Mexico, after a series of murders and...
Southern Mexico Extortion Suggests Migration of Central American Gangs 
Latin America Makes Little Progress Against Corruption

Impact

InSight Crime Interviewed by Associated Press

 
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, the Washington Post, and PBS, in Canada with the National Post, in the Netherlands with The Post Online, in Mexico’s Telemundo Nuevo Mexico, and the Jamaica Observer.
 

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

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R Organization

The R Organization (Organización R – OR) is one of Bolívar state's fastest-growing mining gangs, often called sindicatos...

Barbecue

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

Media Mentions
JAN 31, 2023
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Associated Press - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
"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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