InSight Crime - Investigation and Analysis of Organized Crime
网页4 天之前 · InSight Crime continues to be a leading source of information and analysis on the presence of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in the United…. With the dust still settling after the arrest of Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, InSight Crime investigators Victoria Dittmar and Mike LaSusa arrived….
Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) - InSight Crime
网页2024年5月27日 · The CJNG is headed by alias "El Mencho," a feared but mysterious leader. The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) is a transnational criminal group that emerged from the Milenio Cartel following a series of killings, arrests, and internal fractures. It is known for its aggressive use of violence and …
Tren de Aragua - InSight Crime
网页2024年7月12日 · Tren de Aragua is Venezuela’s most powerful homegrown criminal actor and the only Venezuelan gang that has successfully projected its power abroad. It has grown from a prison gang limited to the state of Aragua, to a transnational threat with a wide criminal portfolio. This transnational expansion came on the backs of Venezuelan …
Sinaloa Cartel - InSight Crime
网页2024年3月15日 · The Sinaloa Cartel, considered the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere, is a network of some of Mexico’s most important drug lords. Members work together to protect themselves. During its existence, the Sinaloa Cartel has forged connections at the highest levels of Mexico’s federal police and ...
Jamaica’s Organized Crime After the Fall of Dudus Coke - InSight …
网页2023年4月24日 · Jamaica’s image was also helped by a decline in the murder rate immediately following Coke’s arrest. The number of homicides dropped 34 percent from 1,683 in 2009, the year before he was detained, to 1,113 in 2011, the year after. The most common explanation for the decline is the mass arrest of alleged gunmen during the …
20 Years After Pablo: The Evolution of Colombia’s Drug Trade
网页2023年4月24日 · Twenty years ago, on December 2, 1993, Pablo Escobar, the pioneer of Colombia's cocaine trade, was killed on a rooftop in his native Medellin by police. His death signaled the end of one era of drug trafficking and the birth of another, as the drug trade continued apace, with Medellin still at its heart.
The Story of the Choneros, Ecuador’s Drug Trafficking Opportunists
网页2023年7月20日 · The Rise and Fall of the Choneros, Ecuador’s Drug Trafficking Opportunists. Jorge Bismarck Véliz España was an ambitious man growing up in Puerto Arturo, a neighborhood in the larger town of Chone. A hub of about 50,000 people located 40 kilometers inland from Ecuador’s Pacific coast, Chone was a busy trading spot for …
Why One of Mexico’s Smallest States Is Also Its Most Violent
网页2020年6月24日 · A series of assassinations of high-profile public figures in Colima marks the latest manifestation of violence in one of Mexico’s smallest yet deadliest states — a dubious honor attributable to Colima’s location along the territorial fault lines dividing Mexico’s most powerful cartels. Colima, with a population of less than one million ...
Why Are Trinidad and Tobago’s Gangs Becoming More Violent?
网页2022年5月31日 · Three factors help to explain the complex criminal landscape and rise in violence in Trinidad and Tobago. First, it appears that gangs are splintering and, in the process, becoming more vicious. In March 2022, Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds told Parliament that the 2021 killing of a gang leader had generated “deep ramifications in the ...
Tusi: The Pink Drug Cocktail That Tricked Latin America - InSight …
网页by Alessandro Ford 6 Jul 2022. A string of seizures across Latin America have revealed how “tusi,” a pink synthetic drug powder, is expanding into new countries and increasing its share of the region’s flourishing synthetic drug markets. In June, tusi consumption was reportedly booming in the nightclubs of Barquisimeto, a city in western ...