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InSight Crime’s 2024 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up
Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets ...
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Special Series: The Sinaloa Cartel’s Internal War
In July 2024, storied Sinaloa Cartel boss Ismael Zambada García, alias “El Mayo,” and Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of the now-jailed former kingpin, Joaquín Guzmán alias “El Chapo,” were arrested in ...
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Serie especial: La guerra interna del Cartel de Sinaloa
En julio de 2024, el reconocido jefe del Cartel de Sinaloa, Ismael Zambada García, alias “El Mayo”, y Joaquín Guzmán López, hijo del exlíder hoy encarcelado Joaquín Guzmán, alias “El Chapo”, fueron ...
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The Cocaine Bonanza: What Seizures Tell Us | Donors Only
InSight Crime invites you to an exclusive event just for donors that will unpack how an unprecedented surge in cocaine production is reshaping the global drug trade. Drawing from the latest field ...
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How Criminal Groups Have Adapted to the Digital Age
The cyber world is constantly evolving, and criminal groups in Latin America are adapting their modus operandi to make the most of it. InSight Crime spoke to Antonio Nicaso, a professor at Queen’s ...
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Annual Cocaine Round-Up
InSight Crime reviews Latin America and the Caribbean’s cocaine seizure date from 2022 to find out what it reveals… Subscribe to our newsletter to receive a weekly digest of the latest organized crime ...
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Balance de InSight Crime de incautaciones de cocaína de 2024
Perú hizo historia en 2024 con la mayor incautación registrada: 9,4 toneladas de cocaína ocultas en un cargamento de maracuyá en el Puerto del Callao. Esto contribuyó a un total de 40 toneladas ...
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Top-Down Peace, Bottom-Up War: The Collapse of Brazil’s Gang Alliance
The imperfect peace established in February between Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups has become a failed truce after just two months, as local rivalries trump national orders. The PCC also ...
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Fracasa la tregua entre las principales bandas brasileñas
La paz imperfecta que se estableció en febrero entre los dos principales grupos criminales de Brasil se convirtió en una tregua fallida por los enfrentamientos regionales. El 28 de abril, el Comando ...
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The US Is Panicking About Tusi. But Should it Be?
Recent statements by US authorities suggest the synthetic drug "tusi," or "pink cocaine," is a serious threat to the country.
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El tusi alarma a Estados Unidos: ¿una amenaza real?
Las autoridades estadounidenses han vinculado recientemente a pandillas latinoamericanas como el Tren de Aragua con la venta de “cocaína rosa”, o “tusi”. Pero la evidencia sugiere que el tusi es más ...