February 10, 2023
 

After the influential and well-sourced publication El Faro declared that El Salvador’s controversial President Nayib Bukele had “disarticulate(d)” the country’s gangs, is it time to revisit the question: Does mano dura work?

Before reaching its finding, El Faro said it had spent 10 months visiting 14 communities, most of which it called “impenetrable” prior to March 2022. That was when, at the behest of the president, El Salvador’s Congress declared a state of emergency following some 92 homicides in a three-day spate of gang-led violence.

 

This week, InSight Crime co-founder, Jeremy McDermott, was among experts featured in an El País podcast on the progress of Colombia’s nascent peace process.

Read our analysis of Colombia’s peace process >

InSight Crime’s managing editor, Chris Dalby, appeared on the Shaun Attwood podcast alongside author Toby Muse. Dalby discussed criminal dynamics in Latin America and the growth of the global cocaine market.

Read our coverage of the Cocaine Pipeline to Europe >

And our coverage of Caribbean nations calling for the United States to do more to reduce arms trafficking has entered into the region’s discussion on critical security after being shared by a law enforcement professional in Trinidad & Tobago. 

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