This week, InSight Crime is proud to announce the launch of our Venezuela Organized Crime Observatory, where we map the country’s most recent criminal events, profile its most prominent criminals, and deliver the best of InSight Crime’s Venezuela-focused coverage.
Visit the Venezuela Organized Crime Observatory >
To accompany the launch, we have a review of Venezuela’s ten strongest criminal organizations, ranking them based on 38 indicators, including their use of violence, criminal alliances, and penetration of the state.
Read Venezuela's Organized Crime Top 10 for 2023 >
In other news, we chronicle one priest’s resistance to the Jalisco Cartel New Generation in Mexico’s Tierra Caliente region. The priest, a leader in his small town, has refused to leave his congregation despite death threats from the cartel who dominate methamphetamine production in the area.
Read ‘How a Priest in Mexico Resists the CJNG’s Incursions’ >
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Venezuela’s organized crime groups and networks have evolved rapidly over the last decade, exploiting social and political crises that have wracked the country while benefiting from a criminally corrupt government that has turned Venezuela into a mafia state...
Read the ranking here >
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Launch: Venezuela Organized Crime Observatory
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Venezuela has emerged as one of the most important regional hubs of organized crime as local and transnational armed groups and criminal networks have proliferated, strengthened, and evolved in lockstep with the emergence of a mafia state under the presidency of Nicolás Maduro.
At the Observatory, we map and analyze the most important events in Venezuelan organized crime. Over a year’s worth of events have already been mapped, and numerous criminal actors profiled. The Observatory will be updated weekly.
For the moment, the Observatory is only available in English. All featured content is available at insightcrime.org
Visit InSight Crime’s Venezuela Organized Crime Observatory >
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It was around midday when the armed gunmen entered the chapel...
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Pharmacies in several cities in northwestern Mexico are selling counterfeit prescription pills laced...
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Homicide Round-Up Cited Globally
Last week, we launched InSight Crime's 2022 Homicide Round-Up. The annual round-up, often a reference piece for international media throughout the year, was once again widely circulated and cited.
InSight Crime co-director, Jeremy McDermott, was interviewed by France24 on the region’s homicide epidemic, while our managing editor, Chris Dalby, was interviewed by regional channel NTN24 and Chile's Tele13 Radio.
Additionally, Spain’s El Diario newspaper, Mexico’s El Universal, Venezuela’s Runrunes, and Dagblad Suriname all cited the Round-Up.
Our homicide figures were also tweeted by a prominent regional analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit in Latin America, Nicolás Saldías.
Read InSight Crime's 2022 Homicide Round-Up here >
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Profiles of some of the notable criminal personalities and groups that have marked this week.
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Niño Guerrero
Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias “Niño Guerrero," is the leader of Tren de Aragua, Venezuela's...
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Las Claritas Sindicato
Autoridades de Brasil han identificado a miembros de una “megabanda”...
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"Pedro Juan Caballero is among the most violent cities in Paraguay due to its criminal gangs involved in drug trafficking, according to the think tank InSight Crime."
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