Podcasts about InSight Crime

On today's episode, Vince welcomes back Steven Dudley, co-founder of Insight Crime and one of the leading voices on Latin American organized crime. They unpack the arrest of a top Sinaloa Cartel leader in Oregon—the largest fentanyl bust in DEA history—and what it means for cartel power dynamics. The conversation dives into how cartels exploit U.S. banks to launder billions, with a focus on the $3B TD Bank case, and how weak oversight and U.S. policy are sustaining the drug war from the inside Borderland is an IRONCLAD Original SPONSORS:  1stPhorm visit: https://www.1stphorm.com/borderland Free shipping through this link on any orders over $75 Free 30 days in the app for new customers (offer comes via email after the purchase) 110% money back guarantee on all of our products. We believe fully in our products. If you don't love the product or you aren't getting the results you hoped for, let us know and we'll give you your money back … plus 10%! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

- Para el 64% de los mexicanos la inseguridad es el problema más grave de México, según encuesta publicada por Latinus. - El 60% cree que se debe investigar si lópez estuvo aliado con el crimen organizado. - Gracias a InSight Crime sabemos que las drogas sintéticas son el gran negocio multimillonario de los cárteles mexicanos. - Y así, la inseguridad y la violencia surgen principalmente por motivos económicos y políticos, no sociales. - Te explico los hallazgos más importantes de su detallado reporte.

En el año 2009, cuando la familia Oseguera Cervantes levantó la mano para ocupar el vacío que dejaba la familia Valencia al frente del Cártel del Milenio, prometió que la nueva criatura que ellos llamarían Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación cumpliría, con creces, dos misiones fundamentales: llevar el narcotráfico de Tierra Caliente a latitudes nunca antes vistas y contribuir en la erradicación de Los Zetas, que amenazaban con hacer metástasis por todo el país. Para lograr lo segundo, en un inicio, se hicieron llamar Los Matazetas y prometieron hacer todo lo posible para frenar a los militares desertores. Y todo era to-do. Incluía superar la violencia, el sadismo y la deshumanización de Los Zetas. Ser más sanguinarios que los mismos demonios. Uno de los crímenes con los confirmación su devoción a la brutalidad ocurrió en 2015 por órdenes de uno de sus primeros capitanes, Heriberto Acevedo Cárdenas, alias “El Gringo”, quien usaba un material nunca antes visto para asesinar a sus rivales: la dinamita. Para acuñar su fama de despiadado, “El Gringo” ordenó a sus sicarios que secuestraran al hijo de uno de sus enemigos —un niño de unos 10 años— atarle un tubo de dinamita al cuello y obligar a su padre a ver cómo explotaba bajo la copa de un árbol en algún lugar en la frontera entre Jalisco y Michoacán. El país conoció esa atrocidad porque “El Gringo” fue abatido en marzo de 2015 por la policía estatal de Jalisco y en su celular le hallaron los videos que grabó para enviarlos a más enemigos y doblarlos de miedo. Desde entonces, la crueldad sin arrepentimiento es la bandera del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación. Incluso, los liderazgos mayores aprueban que los jefes de plaza cometan actos de violencia irracional con tal de proyectar la imagen de que sus integrantes son sanguinarios a la menor provocación. Esto permite al CJNG consolidarse como una marca criminal aterradora. El marketing del horror. Una campaña permanente en la que la sola mención de las cuatro letras, o de su líder Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho”, genere tanto horror que todos se rindan: desde policías y militares que se ponen a su servicio por miedo a ser asesinados hasta empresarios que pagan cada mes el cobro de derecho de piso por temor a desaparecer en uno de sus crematorios ilegales. Chris Dalby, exdirector de Insight Crime, calificó en su último libro al Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación como “el más letal de México”. Y reconoce que, incluso en territorios donde los capos jaliscienses no están disputando el territorio contra otros criminales, los de las cuatro letras matan por diversión… como una manera de recordar siempre a la gente que ellos son los más sanguinarios. Por eso, sorprendió tanto el video publicado la tarde del lunes 17 de marzo en el que una persona que se presenta como integrante del Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, acompañado por un escuadrón armado con rifles de alto poder de origen chino e israelí: en un extrañisimo cambio en el discurso, ahora el cártel intenta convencer a la población de que son buenos y que son del pueblo, para el pueblo y protectores del pueblo. Con un fraseo que recuerda a la retórica militar, y un tono de voz marcial, el orador deslinda al Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación de las atrocidades cometidas en el Rancho Izaguirre en Teuchitlán e intenta convencer a la población de que el crimen organizado es la razón por la cual hay “paz” en Jalisco, que ellos son los responsables de la baja de homicidios en el estado y —peor aún— que, si quieren, pueden imitar la guerra en Sinaloa en cualquier entidad donde tienen presencia. El cambió de guion está a la vida: en los tiempos en que el CJNG está clasificado por Estados Unidos como organización terrorista, que “El Menchito” fue sentenciado a cadena perpetua, que “Don Rodo” está preso, que “Tony Montana” está encarcelado en la Unión Americana y que la salud del “Mencho” va en declive, el cártel más terrorífico del país comienza una lenta, pero decidida mutación: ya le sirve ser visto como el villano, sino que ahora busca venderse como el héroe, uno que avala las verdades históricas del gobierno y que tampoco ven con agrado a las madres buscadoras y la presa crítica. Es el mundo al revés, visto por el crimen organizado: el cártel es honesto, las madres buscadoras mientes, los hornos crematorios no existen y la paz se consigue con rifles Barret 50. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this week's Colombia Calling podcast, we speak to James Bargent, an investigative journalist for Insight Crime about his work putting together the new podcast: "the Shadow of El Dorado." Along with his colleague Mat Charles, the resulting podcast is a multi-year project which takes the listener into the world of organized crime and how the Gaitanista (Clan del Golfo or AGC) criminal organisation controls the mining economy and its subsidiary interests in the town of Segovia, Antioquia. Their search for Colombia's blood gold takes us to Segovia and the illegal mines at the very beginning of the global supply chain. But what they find there is a strange mirror world, where conventional narratives fall apart, and the names and labels they try to apply do not make sense.  Tune in to the podcast: https://insightcrime.org/audio-from-the-ground-up/the-shadow-of-el-dorado-p… The Colombia Briefing is reported by Emily Hart. 

Society & Culture - InSight Crime

Society & Culture - InSight Crime

¡Buenos días! 🛤 Investigación trasnacional: Cómo fue que el Tren de Aragua se apoderó de las redes de prostitución en el Perú. Lo cuenta Lara Loaiza, de Insight Crime. MIENTRAS TANTO: 🔥🔥🔥López Aliaga vs Nicolás Lúcar: Una bronca con escándalos y golpes bajos... pero también con un voto que el alcalde, por primera vez, reconoce. ADEMÁS: Líneas de Nazca afectadas por huaycos. Y...🚰 Desde griferías hasta impresiones 3D, asesorías legales y web. Descubre a nuestros emprendedores que tienen DESCUENTOS para ti. **** ¿Te gustó este episodio? ¿Buscas las fuentes de los datos mencionados hoy? SUSCRÍBETE en http://patreon.com/ocram para acceder a nuestros GRUPOS EXCLUSIVOS de Telegram y WhatsApp. También puedes hacerte MIEMBRO de nuestro canal de YouTube aquí https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP0AJJeNkFBYzegTTVbKhPg/join **** Únete a nuestro CANAL de WhatsApp aquí https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAgBeN6RGJLubpqyw29 **** Para más información legal: http://laencerrona.pe

La permanencia de Nicolás Maduro en el poder en Venezuela tiene consecuencias graves respecto a las relaciones internacionales.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

La detención de Maickel Villegas Rodríguez, un venezolano de 27 años, que intentó entrar a Costa Rica el 12 de julio infiltrado en un autobús que trasladaba migrantes desde Panamá hacia la frontera norte de nuestro país, activó un mecanismo policial de cooperación internacional. Villegas es un delincuente peligroso. Miembro del tren de Aragua, una organización de crimen transnacional. Él junto con otros sujetos habrían asesinado en marzo pasado al teniente Ronald Ojeda, un opositor del gobierno de Nicolás Maduro que tenía la condición de refugiado en Chile. Al informarse de su detención, las autoridades chilenas solicitaron como mecanismo preliminar, la detención con fines de extradición y este lunes la Subsecretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Gloria de la Fuente González oficializó ante nuestra Cancillería, la solicitud de extradición. Se trata, pues de un caso de extrema prioridad para el gobierno suramericano. InSight Crime (una fundación dedicada al estudio de las amenazas a la seguridad Latinoamericana) califica al tren de Aragua como la banda criminal más grande y poderosa de Venezuela. Tiene 4 mil miembros que operan en Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador y Chile y cada vez van extendiendo más sus tentáculos, pues Transparencia Venezuela dice que ya están en Brasil y Costa Rica y el gobierno de Joe Biden, asegura ya está también en Estados Unidos. Para conocer acerca del caso específico de la extradición y para dimensionar la peligrosidad de esta corporación del delito, conversamos con la Subsecretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, Gloria de la Fuente y con el experto en seguridad e inteligencia, Álvaro Ramos Retchnitz.

En la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México existen cuatro corredores principales de trata de personas: Tijuana-Mexicali, el desierto de Sonora, Ciudad Juárez y los municipios de Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros, asegura una investigación de InSight Crime

Today is the second in a two-part series on BORDERLAND, examining the MS13 gang and the massive crackdown taking place in El Salvador. Last week, we spoke with Alex Papadovassilakis and Steven Dudley of the organization InSight Crime, to talk about efforts to clear the country of gang violence, the 70,000 people who've been arrested, and the mega prisons that are housing them. This week, we do a deep dive into the origins of the notorious street gang and how they differ from Mexican cartels.  The fentanyl crisis, what is tranq (as well as how it became such a massive and dangerous problem in areas known for street drugs), how these drugs are coming into the country, and what can be done to stop it. Borderland is an IRONCLAD Original  Subscribe on YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/user/thisisironclad/videos⁠

Roberto Díaz reports https://twitter.com/dieresis_u.  On February 22, 2024, during the presidential morning conference, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, revealed a letter sent to him by the Mexico, Central America, and Caribbean bureau of the U.S. newspaper The New York Times. In the letter, the president was asked to respond to a series of questions sent by the newspaper's editor, Natalie Krittoef, with the intention of clarifying alleged illicit financing in his 2018 campaign.   During the press conference, the Mexican president read the letter containing the editor's phone number, which could be considered a violation of Mexico's journalist data protection law. It is worth mentioning that in recent weeks, there have been four attempts to link AMLO to organized crime—a report by DW, another by Pro-Publica, another by Insight Crime, and another by Latinus—all just four months before the presidential elections in Mexico, where all polls indicate the candidate from his political party, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, as the winner. It should be noted that all investigations have resulted in no substantiation.   On February 23, there was an interesting response from Univisión correspondent Jésica Zermeño, who, when questioned about the leak of an editor's phone number that was not private and was already publicly available on LinkedIn, the president's response about a "higher moral law" superior to the law established in the Mexican constitution was enough, fueling an already polarized relationship between his administration and the media.   Even though in 2023, according to the NGO Reporters Without Borders, four journalists were killed and 34 disappeared, making Mexico the second most dangerous country for journalism outside of Gaza, the media has tried to link López Obrador's presidency to the killings. Mainly denouncing "La Mañanera," the morning press conferences, to denigrate often biased work, as was the case with the misinformation spread by Diario de Yucatan about a supposed heart attack suffered by the president, further diminishing a critical stance on the search for evidence to justify the editorial lines pursued by different media outlets which supported the desinformation.    "If she has so much of a problem, she should change her number," was the response given by President AMLO regarding the issue, ignoring that things were only going to get more complicated from there on.   Communication experts, analysts, and national and international journalists, came to the defense of editor Natalie Krittoef due to the phone number leak. It should be noted that while the case of editor Natalie Krittoef went viral and at the same time generated sympathy, a second leak occurred of phone numbers linked to journalists attending "La Mañanera." These were later exploited by trolls and bots on social media to increase hate speech and threats against independent journalists who weren't antagonistic with the AMLO's administration.The inaction of organizations such as Article 19 in these cases was already expected. While the organization expressed concern about data leaking from more than 300 journalists attending "La Mañanera," an incident that was revealed on January 26 of this year, for the second leak, they stood silently.   Finally, the propaganda campaign "Change the Number," a campaign carried out by female journalists and actresses very active in the Mexican opposition such as Areli Paz, Paula Ordorica, Azucena Uresti, Lourdes Mendoza, and Denisse Dresser, where through a message on social networks, the journalist said, they were going to leak her number so that people could call them. For those who called expecting to get in touch with the journalists, they only found a pre-recorded message about the number of journalists killed in Mexico. Additionally, two of the profiles of the journalists who promoted this campaign, Denisse Dresser, and Azucena Uresti, were selected as possible moderators in the debates that will be held to choose the next president of Mexico, both women with a biased position towards the interests of the Frente Amplio; the coalition of parties consisting of PRI, PAN, and PRD. the current opposition to the AMLO's government.   In a Mexico where there have been 169 journalist murdered, because of investigating links between organized crime and different levels of government, from federal to state and municipal levels, so, reducing the issue to AMLO's statements and responses as the cause of this increase of violence towards journalist seems a little bit reductive, instead of not holding the judicial power accountable for failing to initiate effective investigation lines to clarify the journalist's murders in Mexico.   Duration: 8 minutes   Recorded: 2024-03-09   #LatinAmerica #Mexico #Repression #Disinformation   Our published content is on our podcast host http://democracycast.libsyn.com    Send Listener feedback by sending an email to:    democracycast@earthlink.net    More Social Media Links for Democracy Watch News   http://www.DemocracyWatchNews.org    https://twitter.com/dwatchnews?lang=en  Account Suspended    https://facebook.com/dwatchnews     https://www.instagram.com/democracywatchnews/    https://www.linkedin.com/company/35464830    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRhWxBiRG-01eLS9A_vlVuA    We also augment the news on Twitter globally Asia-Eastern Augments/covers news for West Asia, North Africa & Central Asia #democracy #HumanRights #PressFreedom #environment #OpenGov Asia-Pacific Augments/covers news for South & SE Asia, & The Pacific  #HumanRights #PressFreedom #Environment #OpenGov #News #East Europe Augments/covers news throughout Europe #Democracy #HumanRights #PressFreedom #PublicPolicy #MediaEthics #environment #transparency International  Augments/covers news for more than 190 countries each month.  An independent-global news-service, Democracy Watch News covers #democracy #HumanRights #NonviolentConflict #PressFreedom #journalism #mediaEthics #Environment. Latin America & South Atlantic Augments/covers news for Latin America & South Atlantic. #HumanRights #OpenGov #PressFreedom #NonviolentConflict #Environment in #SouthAmerica #Caribbean #CentralAmerica. North America Augments/covers news for USA Canada Mexico and the North Pacific. #Mexico #Canada #USA stories/events affecting #democracy #humanRights #journalism #opengov #environment. Sub Saharan Africa Augments/covers news for Sub Saharan Africa #News #WestAfrica #CentralAfrica #EastAfrica #SouthernAfrica #HumanRights #PressFreedom #Environment     Our production team and theme music    Democracy Watch News is currently produced by volunteers. Please donate,  we are now a 501c3 charitable nonprofit in the USA. Donations are tax deductible.     Please share with your networks.   Spanish Credits   Nuestro contenido publicado en nuestro host de podcast http://democracycast.libsyn.com    Envíe los comentarios de los oyentes enviando un correo electrónico a: democracycast@earthlink.net    http://www.DemocracyWatchNews.org  https://twitter.com/dwatchnews?lang=en    https://facebook.com/dwatchnews    https://www.instagram.com/democracywatchnews/  https://www.linkedin.com/company/35464830  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRhWxBiRG-01eLS9A_vlVuA    Nuestro equipo de producción y tema musical:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rnPeRDB3JTrr80N_NlLmUM7nEzrRejw8-5qFYd45W5M/edit?usp=sharing   Actualmente, Democracy Watch News es producido por voluntarios. Por favor, done en https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=FQZHMRJUTN5XU  Ahora somos una organización benéfica sin fines de lucro 501c3. Las donaciones son deducibles de impuestos.    Por favor comparte con tus redes.  

Today is the first in a two-part series on BORDERLAND, examining the MS13 gang and the massive crackdown taking place in El Salvador. This week, we talk with Alex Papadovassilakis and Steven Dudley of the organization InSight Crime, to talk about efforts to clear the country of gang violence, the 70,000 people who've been arrested, and the mega prisons that are housing them. Next week, we do a deep dive into the origins of the notorious street gang and how they differ from Mexican cartels.  The fentanyl crisis, what is tranq (as well as how it became such a massive and dangerous problem in areas known for street drugs), how these drugs are coming into the country, and what can be done to stop it. Borderland is an IRONCLAD Original  Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/thisisironclad/videos

The Sinaloa Cartel, a Mexican organised crime gang, has been linked to last week’s almost €33m drugs seizure at Cork Port. Two Kerry men have been arrested in connection with the seizure. Parker Asmann is an investigative journalist with InSight Crime, a think tank and media organisation that’s focused on organised crime in the Americas. Mr Asmann, who’s based in Mexico, spoke to Treasa Murphy.

El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, niega que su campaña de 2006 haya recibido dinero del narcotráfico. Sin embargo, el centro de investigación periodística sin fines de lucro, InSight Crime, detalló este martes en una publicación cómo la DEA presuntamente investigó esa campaña presidencial hasta determinar que habría recibido al menos US$ 2 millones provenientes de la organización de los Beltrán Leyva. CNN contactó al vocero del Gobierno de México para conocer su reacción a este señalamiento en específico, pero, hasta ahora, no hemos recibido respuesta. También solicitamos reacción de la DEA y el Departamento de Justicia nos respondió que preferían no comentar sobre la investigación periodística. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, niega que su campaña de 2006 haya recibido dinero del narcotráfico. Sin embargo, el centro de investigación periodística sin fines de lucro, InSight Crime, detalló este martes en una publicación cómo la DEA presuntamente investigó esa campaña presidencial hasta determinar que habría recibido al menos US$ 2 millones provenientes de la organización de los Beltrán Leyva. CNN contactó al vocero del Gobierno de México para conocer su reacción a este señalamiento en específico, pero, hasta ahora, no hemos recibido respuesta. También solicitamos reacción de la DEA y el Departamento de Justicia nos respondió que preferían no comentar sobre la investigación periodística. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

¿El Cártel de Sinaloa financió la campaña presidencial de AMLO en el 2006? Esa es la hipótesis de tres investigaciones que se publicaron simultáneamente el martes en distintos medios internacionales y que se basan en un expediente titulado “Operación Polanco” elaborado por la DEA entre 2010 y 2011. Uno de los reportajes publicados fue firmado por la periodista mexicana Anabel Hernández en la agencia de noticias DW. Ella argumenta que el gobierno estadounidense “tiene pruebas sólidas” para concluir que el Cártel de Sinaloa entregó entre 2 y 4 millones de dólares a personas cercanas a López Obrador para ayudar en la campaña de 2006 del hoy presidente de México. Con pequeñas diferencias, se publicó la misma historia en InSight Crime, y por el dos veces ganador del Pulitzer, Tim Golden, quien firmó su artículo en el prestigioso medio independiente ProPublica. Los CEO's de las principales compañías de big tech enfrentaron un intenso interrogatorio en el Congreso de Estados Unidos sobre la explotación sexual infantil en redes sociales. Durante cuatro horas, Mark Zuckerberg de Meta, Linda Yaccarino de X, Shou Zi Chew de Tiktok, Evan Spiegel de Snapchat y Jason Citron de Discord, escucharon preguntas de los legisladores. El senador republicano Lindsey Graham abrió la sesión con una fuerte declaración, señalando que Zuckerberg y las demás compañías presentes tienen sangre en sus manos por tener un producto que está matando a la gente. Otro momento impactante fue cuando el ejecutivo de Meta se dirigió a los padres cuyos hijos se suicidaron tras ser víctimas de abuso en línea, y les pidió disculpas. Además… A pocos días de haber reabierto, una jueza ordenó la suspensión provisional de las corridas de toros en la Plaza México; una granada de mano fue hallada dentro de la Torre de Pemex en la CDMX; la Cámara de Representantes, con mayoría republicana, aprobó los primeros pasos para un “impeachment” en contra de Alejandro Mayorkas, secretario de Seguridad Nacional; y Universal Music Group retiró todo su catálogo musical, que incluye a artistas como Taylor Swift, Rosalía y Harry Styles, de Tiktok.Y para #ElVasoMedioLleno…Si tienes perrijos, gatijos, o cualquier mascot-ijo, sabes que las visitas al veterinario pueden ser un mega golpe a tu cartera…Sin embargo, y por decreto oficial, se deberán establecer clínicas veterinarias públicas en todo México.Para enterarte de más noticias como estas, síguenos en nuestras redes sociales. Estamos en todas las plataformas como @telokwento. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#MicrosFundaRedes | A casi dos años de los operativos contra los llamados Tancol “aún no hay evidencia de que dicha red criminal exista por fuera de la imaginación del Estado venezolano”, revela una reciente investigación de Insight Crime. Lo que sí han dejado estos operativos militares es un aumento de ejecuciones extrajudiciales, detenciones arbitrarias, desplazamientos en comunidades rurales e indígenas, de acuerdo con denuncias de habitantes de las zonas afectadas, familias de víctimas y reseñas de medios de comunicación. #Boletín46 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ong-fundaredes/message

En nuestro episodio de hoy, Lucy Rodríguez conversa con Alex Papadovassilakis, quien es corresponsal en Guatemala para el medio sin fines de lucro InSight Crime, especializado en la investigación del crimen organizado en América Latina y El Caribe. Durante su conversación se abordaron la conformación de las estructuras de poder criminal que permean a una buena parte de los partidos políticos y qué influencia tuvieron durante la administración que termina y en el proceso electoral que definirá a la siguiente. A continuación te dejamos el enlace para el informe que discutimos en la entrevista para que lo revises y lo compartas: https://es.insightcrime.org/investigaciones/vamos-lucha-seguir-juego/

Welcome to the Daily Compliance News. Each day, Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance brings to you compliance-related stories to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the Daily Compliance News. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day we consider four stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest for the compliance professional. ·       Solar Winds execs receive Wells Notice. (Reuters)  ·       Corruption hindering PdVSA.  (InSight Crime) ·       Inhouse lawyers grapple with ESG demands. (FT) ·       SEC wants more information from small banks.  (WSJ) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Un artículo publicado la semana pasada en la revista británica The Economist afirma que Uruguay está “perdiendo su reputación como la historia de éxito de América Latina”. La nota, que no está firmada, señala que la “brillante reputación del país se ha deslucido recientemente” y para avalar su afirmación menciona varios casos que contribuyeron a un supuesto deterioro en la imagen: la renuncia del ex ministro de Turismo, Germán Cardoso, por presuntas irregularidades en esa cartera, el caso del ex jefe de seguridad Alejandro Astesiano, o la aprobación de un pasaporte al narcotraficante Sebastián Marset. Además, The Economist resalta que hubo en Uruguay un aumento de la criminalidad. En ese sentido cita un reporte de la organización Insight Crime que muestra que grupos de crimen organizado envían armas de asalto y municiones entre Argentina y Brasil a través de Uruguay. El artículo asegura que “es probable que el presidente Lacalle Pou pueda recuperarse de los recientes escándalos”. Sin embargo, apunta que esos casos, sumados al aumento de la criminalidad, “podrían poner en peligro las posibilidades de los conservadores en las elecciones del próximo año”. Luego de que se conociera esta publicación algunos legisladores del Frente Amplio opinaron que se está perdiendo el prestigio internacional. Por ejemplo, el senador Charles Carrera escribió en su cuenta de Twitter que “lamentablemente, la corrupción, la inseguridad pública y la degradación institucional nos llevan al desprestigio internacional”. La Mesa de los Miércoles con Agustín Iturralde, Eleonora Navatta, Desireé Pagliarini y Oscar Sarlo.

The Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras have long faced challenges from gangs which have become entrenched criminal networks. In response, governments throughout the region have periodically adopted hardline, or mano dura, security policies to clamp down on gangs. Most recently, El Salvador has seen one of the most extreme versions of such a policy under President Nayib Bukele, using a state of emergency to curtail constitutional protections, jailing upwards of sixty thousand alleged gang members, and serving as a backdrop for his consolidation of power and attacks on civil society and the press. In this episode, Christopher Hernandez-Roy sits down with Steven Dudley, Co-Director of InSight Crime and author of the award-winning book MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang. Together, they unpack the nature of El Salvador's state of exception, what differentiates it from past hardline policies, and the threat this "Plan Bukele" poses to El Salvador and to democracies throughout the region. They also delve into the impact of both gang violence and counter-gang repression on Salvadoran citizens, and what can be done to promote lasting security in Central America.

¿Cómo va la paz total? ¿Qué se puede aprender e implementar del acuerdo de paz de la Habana? ¿La poca acción frente a la erradicación de cultivos ilícitos puede salirle caro al país? ¿Cómo combinar un correcto esfuerzo de paz con una buena política de seguridad? ¿Qué efecto tiene el crecimiento de la riqueza del narcotráfico con la inseguridad en las ciudades? Para este episodio hablamos con el exministro de Defensa Gabriel Silva, con la analista Sandra Borda, con quienes fueron miembros del equipo negociador del proceso de paz de la Habana: Sergio Jaramillo y Humberto de la Calle. Además, consultamos a Jeremy McDermott Co-director de Insight Crime.¡Bienvenidos a Mis Preguntas con Roberto Pombo!

Carlos Castresana and his team at CICIG find and surveil the gang of contract killers hired to murder Rodrigo Rosenberg. As the investigation continues and protests swell, President Alvaro Colom, and the Guatemalan government, reach a breaking point. Click to listen to new episodes of The Rosenberg Case a week early: https://apple.co/3z0FyWW --------- Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo Produced by: Jason Seagraves Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing Music by: Soundstripe ---------- Interviews: Steven Dudley - Steven is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas, and a senior fellow at American University's Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In September, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins), which in 2019 won the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress. To learn more about the Dos Erras Massacre click: here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The men behind the filming of the Rosenberg video are unmasked and Carlos Castresana, a Spanish prosecutor, is put in charge of investigating the murder of Rodrigo Rosenberg. Click to listen to new episodes of The Rosenberg Case a week early: https://apple.co/3z0FyWW ---------- Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo Produced by: Jason Seagraves Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing Music by: Soundstripe -------- Interviews: Roberto Izurieta - Roberto is the Director of Latin American Projects for the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Izurieta has written many articles and he is the author of two books. From 1998-2000, he was the Communications Director for the President of Ecuador. Since then, Izurieta has worked on several political campaigns in Latin America, and Spain, including in México, Ecuador, Perú, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. He has advised President Alejandro Toledo of Perú, President Vicente Fox of Mexico and President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala. He is a political commentator for CNN en Espanol. Steven Dudley - Steven is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas, and a senior fellow at American University's Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In September, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins), which in 2019 won the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

El Tren de Aragua es la banda criminal más poderosa de Venezuela. Según las investigaciones, su cuartel general estaria dentro de una cárcel, pero eso no ha impedido que se expanda a otros países a gran velocidad.Laura Avila es periodista y gestora de proyectos en Insight Crime, y se ha dedicado a investigar a este grupo, que se convirtió en una amenaza transnacional.Laura nos va a explicar cómo opera el Tren de Aragua, hasta dónde han llegado sus células y qué tan peligrosa es su expansión para la región latinoamericana.  

Over the past three years, Insight Crime have been investigating the relationship between the cocaine trade and Venezuela. Part of this investigation focuses in on the role of the state – some state actors who are actively involved, other senior state actors who allow and enable the cocaine to flow.According to the Global Organized Crime Index – Venezuela sits 18th out of 193 countries around the world for levels of criminality. And is one of only 16 countries that scored NINE or higher out of ten when it comes to state-embedded actors playing a role in illegal activities.In this episode Thin sits down with Jeremy McDermott, co-founder and co-director of Insight Crime to talk about their investigation and about the link between criminal actors and officials within the Venezuelan government.Presenter: Thin Lei WinSpeakers:Jeremy McDermott, Co-founder and Co-director of Insight Crime and member of the GI Network of Experts - TwitterMariana Botero Restrepo, Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime - TwitterAdditional Links:Insight Crime investigation - "Venezuela's Move to Cocaine Production: Crops, Chemists and Criminal Evolution"Venezuela ProfileOCIndex.netGlobal Initiative Against Transnational Organized CrimeThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

After Rodrigo Rosenberg is killed by assassins, a video is released, on YouTube, wherein Rosenberg predicts his own assassination and names the President of Guatemala as the man behind the crime. The accusation sets a national scandal in motion. Click to listen to new episodes of The Rosenberg Case a week early: https://apple.co/3z0FyWW Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo Produced by: Jason Seagraves Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing Music by: Soundstripe Additional recording by: Zach McNees --------- Interviews: Roberto Izurieta - Roberto is the Director of Latin American Projects for the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Izurieta has written many articles and he is the author of two books. From 1998-2000, he was the Communications Director for the President of Ecuador. Since then, Izurieta has worked on several political campaigns in Latin America, and Spain, including in México, Ecuador, Perú, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic. He has advised President Alejandro Toledo of Perú, President Vicente Fox of Mexico and President Alvaro Colom of Guatemala. He is a political commentator for CNN en Espanol. Steven Dudley - Steven is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas, and a senior fellow at American University's Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In September, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins), which in 2019 won the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2009, a Guatemalan businessman named Khalil Musa and his daughter Marjorie are brutally gunned down while stopped at an intersection. Musa's lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, pursues an investigation of the crime that unravels a vast conspiracy and leads to his own murder. For access to episodes of THE ROSENBERG CASE a week early, and ad free, be sure to subscribe to Cavalry+ on Apple Podcasts. Featuring Oscar Isaac as Rodrigo Rosenberg Written and Narrated by: Edgar Castillo Produced by: Jason Seagraves Executive Producer: Oscar Isaac, Dana Brunetti, Keegan Rosenberger, and Edgar Castillo Sound Editor, Mixer and Post Production Supervisor: Revision Sound - Josh Ewing Music by: Soundstripe ----------- Interviews: Dr. Edgar Castillo-Armas, MD Steven Dudley - the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas, and a senior fellow at American University's Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In September, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins), which in 2019 won the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jeremy McDermott, codirector del centro de estudios InSight Crime, dio detalles del estudio realizado sobre la presencia del ELN en Venezuela.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

¿Puede Ucrania ganar la guerra? Hablamos en Madrid con el especialista Jesús Núñez. Sobre la banda El Tren de Aragua dialogamos con Laura Ávila de InSight Crime. Y de la reina, con Karen Attiah, columnista de "The Washington Post"

Patreon... because you want to support our goofy asses www.patreon.com/accidentaldads  So thank you to a beautiful and wonderful listener, we decided to do an addendum to our top police stings and follow it up with the top most dangerous mobs/gangs of all time.  La Cosa Nostra One of the biggest threats to American civilization from organized crime is the Cosa Nostra, sometimes referred to as the "Mob" or the "Mafia," which sprang from the Sicilian Mafia. The term "La Cosa Nostra," used by the US government, and "Cosa Nostra" by its members literally translates to "this thing of ours" or "our thing." This international organization of criminals, made up of many "families," is committed to combating crime and defending its members. These organized and major racketeering activities are being carried out by these crime families or groups, which are connected by kinship or by conspiracy. A wide range of illicit activities, including as murder, extortion, drug trafficking, government corruption, gambling, infiltrating lawful enterprises, labor racketeering, loan sharking, prostitution, pornography, tax fraud schemes, and stock manipulation are also engaged in by them. The Cosa Nostra is most prevalent in the urban areas of New York City, New England, and portions of New Jersey, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago. The Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese families are among the prominent ones in the New York City region. Sometimes, members and associates of one La Cosa Nostra family collaborate with members of other La Cosa Nostra families to carry out joint criminal activities.   Within these families, members collaborate on "crews" that are commanded by a "capo" or "captain," who is in charge of overseeing his crew's illicit actions and offering them assistance and safety. The crews are made up of trusted outsiders known as "associates" and "made" members known as "soldiers." An associate must be of Italian heritage, have proven their capacity to make money for the Family, and have shown a willingness to use violence in order to become a "made member" of the Family. The three highest-ranking members who manage the Family are the Boss or Acting Boss, the Underboss, and the Consigliere, or advisor. Cosa Nostra has its origins in Italian organized crime, although it has existed as a distinct organization for a long time. It still collaborates with many criminal organizations with Italian headquarters today in a variety of illicit operations.    Labor racketeering, in which it attempts to dominate, manage, and control a labor movement in order to have an impact on associated businesses and industries, is one of its main sources of income, power, and influence. Organized criminal organizations may profit greatly from labor unions, particularly their pension, welfare, and health funds. The mafia tries to regulate these schemes by giving businesses "sweetheart" contracts, cordial worker relations, and weak work regulations, or by manipulating union elections. Large cities like New York, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia that have robust industrial bases and labor unions tend to be the epicenters of labor law infractions. Additionally, there are several organized criminal characters in these cities. Labor racketeering costs the American public millions of dollars annually through increased labor expenses that are ultimately passed on to consumers, according to many FBI investigations.   In order to investigate potential violations of labor law, the FBI collaborates closely with other governmental organizations and uses methods such as electronic surveillance, covert operations, use of secret sources, and victim interviews. The passing of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) in 1970 was the one event that helped more than anything else to deter organized crime. The agencies were able to work more effectively as a result of this action because they could target the entire corrupt organization rather than incarcerating individuals who might simply be replaced by other members or affiliates of organized crime.   The first known Sicilian Mafia member to immigrate to the United States was Giuseppe Esposito. After assassinating 11 rich landowners, the chancellor and vice chancellor of a Sicilian province, and six other Sicilians, he escaped to New York. In 1881, he was detained in New Orleans, Louisiana, and then sent back to Italy.    The nation's first significant Mafia event occurred in New Orleans. Police Superintendent David Hennessey of New Orleans was executed on October 15, 1890. Numerous Sicilians were detained, and 19 were ultimately charged with the crime. An acquittal spread allegations of widespread corruption and scared witnesses away. On March 14, 1891, a group of angry New Orleans residents formed a lynch mob and murdered 11 out of the 19 defendants. Eight managed to flee, nine were shot, and two were hanged.   As different gangs gained and lost power throughout the years, the American Mafia changed. The Black Hand gangs in the early 1900s, the Five Points Gang in New York City in the 1910s and 1920s, and Al Capone's Syndicate in Chicago in the 1920s were a few of the earliest.   The Italian Mafia factions started fighting during Prohibition for exclusive control of lucrative bootlegging networks. They struggled for dominance of bootlegging alongside Jewish and Irish ethnic gangs. By the conclusion of the decade, two Italian organizations were competing for dominance of the nation's criminal underworld. Joe Masseria, the head of the Genovese criminal family, oversaw one gang, while Salvatore Maranzano, who oversaw the Bonanno crime family, oversaw the other. The deadly Castellammarese War, which raged from February 1930 to April 15, 1931, was the result of the rivalry's escalation. When Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Masseria's senior soldier, and Salvatore Maranzano planned to have Masseria assassinated, the battle came to an end.   Maranzano eventually rose to prominence as the nation's most powerful Mafia leader, referring to himself as "Boss of Bosses." Maranzano designed the organization's code of conduct, set the conflict resolution processes, and split New York City into five families. Charles "Lucky" Luciano was designated as the leader of the Genovese family, as it eventually came to be known.   Maranzano's leadership position would, however, be transitory. Maranzano preferred to exclusively associate with Sicilians and upheld the traditions of the purported "Old World Mafia '' by refusing to cooperate with non-Italians. Younger Italian organized crime figures like Luciano believed that limiting their business dealings to Italians would restrict both the development of their individual careers and the possible expansion of their criminal empires. As long as there was money to be made, these men—known as the "Young Turks''—wanted to deal with Irish and Jewish gangsters.   Marazano quickly saw Luciano as a threat and gave the order to kill him. On September 10, 1931, Marazano was murdered by a group of mobsters at his office in the New York Central Building when Luciano learned about the scheme.   In order to prevent future Mafia battles, Lucky Luciano formed "The Commission," a coalition of five Mafia families of similar magnitude, with the aid of his lifelong buddy, Meyer Lansky. Vincent Mangano, Tommy Gagliano, Joseph Bonanno, and Joseph Profaci served as the commission's other leaders. After then, this panel made decisions about all organized criminal activity throughout the 1930s. The leaders of the Chicago Outfit and the Five Families of New York City reportedly still make up the Commission.   The organized crime groups quickly diversified into new businesses after Prohibition ended in 1933 because they were unable to maintain the high profits they had made throughout the 1920s. These new businesses included labor racketeering through the control of labor unions, construction, loan sharking, extortion, protection rackets, sanitation, transportation, prostitution, and drug trafficking.   In Las Vegas, Nevada's legal casinos by the 1950s, numerous Mafia leaders had made legitimate investments and were skimming money before it was recorded. It is assumed that the sum was in the hundreds of millions of dollars.   For years, the Mafia operated in secrecy with little opposition from the law because local law enforcement authorities lacked the tools or expertise necessary to successfully confront organized crime perpetrated by a covert organization they were unaware even existed.   It wasn't until 1951 that a U.S. Senate investigation concluded that this country was home to a "sinister criminal organization," subsequently known as La Cosa Nostra. Six years later, in the little upstate New York hamlet of Apalachin, The New York State Police discovered a gathering of important La Cosa Nostra officials from all across the nation. Numerous guests were taken into custody. The incident served as the impetus for altering how organized crime is combated by law enforcement.   Joe Valachi, the first Mafia member to turn state's evidence in 1963, divulged extensive details about the organization's inner workings and trade secrets. After then, the National Crime Syndicate of the Mafia was aggressively attacked by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Although the Mafia came under additional pressure as a result, its illegal operations were not significantly reduced.   However, the Nevada State Legislature's passage of a measure in 1969 that made it simpler for companies to run casinos caused the Mafia's power in the Las Vegas economy to start to decline. A year later, the RICO Act was approved by the US Congress, giving law enforcement extra power to go after the mafia for its criminal operations. By the start of the 1980s, the FBI had achieved success when it was able to free Las Vegas casinos from Mafia rule and made a concerted effort to weaken the Mafia's grip on labor unions.   23 mafia bosses from all throughout the country were found guilty of violating the RICO statute between 1981 and 1992. By 1990, almost 1000 members of criminal families had been found guilty. While many Mafia organizations around the nation were severely damaged, the most powerful families continued to control crime in their regions.   The Mafia has persisted in engaging in a wide range of illicit operations into the twenty-first century, including extortion, government corruption, gambling, infiltration into lawful firms, labor racketeering, loan sharking, and more. Today, Chicago and the Northeast still account for the majority of its operations.   La Cosa Nostra's organizational structure has not altered since the 1930s, and Cosa Nostra has operated for more than a century in a variety of guises.   Camorra Mafia   Now We talked about the American Mob, and we hear about them a lot, so let's talk about the True Italian Mafia, The Camorra.   Due to that gang's effect on American organized crime, the term "Mafia" has come to symbolize all forms of organized crime in popular culture. However, that phrase is really the name of the organized criminal gang rooted in Sicily, according to Mafia historian Umberto Santino's study of Mafia and Mafia-type groups in Italy. The 'Ndrangheta, from Calabria, the Sacra Corona Unita, from Apulia, and the Camorra, from Campania, the area that includes the city of Naples, are further "Mafia-type" groups.   The history of the Camorra is "particularly discontinuous," according to Santino. Despite having origins that may go as far back as 15th-century Spain, sources like Britannica claim that the organization first rose to prominence in the 19th century. Santino, however, claims that the organization's current form dates back to the late 1950s, when local criminal organizations in Campania started using the term "camorra." In the 1960s, these organizations expanded and became increasingly effective at smuggling cigarettes.   In this decade, they also forged advantageous relationships with a number of Neapolitan Mafia factions, which in the 1970s led to the development of profitable black market drug trafficking. However, there is one key distinction between the Cosa Nostra, sometimes known as the Mafia, and the Camorra. While the Mafia has a top-down, pyramidal structure of authority, the Camorra has a more dispersed system of small organizations, or "clans," that hold power. The Camorra has found success with its organizational structure, and as a result, is currently more powerful than the Sicilian Mafia.   According to Santino, the Camorra has 7,000 members spread throughout its 145 clans. The Camorra is the most prosperous and feared criminal gang in Italy thanks to its domination over the trafficking in narcotics including cocaine and heroin. The Independent published a story in 2006 about an Italian author named Roberto Saviano who wrote a book that revealed a few more details about the Camorra than the gang would have wanted. He had excellent reason to worry for his life. "This sprawling network of criminal gangs, according to [Saviano]," wrote reporter Peter Popham, "now dwarfs both the original Mafia of Sicily, the 'Ndrangheta and southern Italy's other organized gangs, in numbers, in economic power and in ruthless violence."   The New York Times reported that Saviano's book Gomorra was a "literary sensation" that sold more than 500,000 copies, but it also resulted in death threats and compelled him to go into hiding because it depicted gang violence, drug trafficking, child soldiers, and other aspects of the Camorra's business that the gang would prefer to keep hidden from the outside world. Aspects like the rampant government corruption, which causes trash to pile up in the streets car-high, or the fact that the Camorra has killed much more people recently than the Sicilian Mafia and made Campania one of the most deadly regions in Europe.   Sicily is where the Mafia that we know and admire today originated. They first appeared at some time in the late 19th century, and over the next 150 years or so, they expanded all over the world and became involved in just about everything. It has long been a mystery how this highly ordered system came to be, but new study from the University of Nottingham suggests that it all began with lemons.   Sicily discovered they had the ideal mixture to develop a lucrative crop in the late 1800s. Despite having the greatest concentration of lemon trees in all of Italy, they also faced a particular set of issues. Lemon farmers eventually turned to hiring their own private protection firms to protect their investment and themselves because of factors such as a wealthy upper class that exploited the peasant class to the fullest, a glaring lack of public law enforcement, and a government that really wasn't keeping the peace. Add a few more elements now: Sicily's location on a key Mediterranean trade route, the rapidly expanding citrus industry, and the demand for private security forces to safeguard interests make it the ideal location for the Mafia to establish itself.   Don Calo Vizzini was at the head of the Villalba Mafia during World War II, and he may have said it best. He was quoted by the University of Nottingham paper as saying, "In every society there has to be a category of people who straighten things out when situations get complicated. Usually they're functionaries of the state. Where the state is not present, or where it does not have sufficient force, this is done by private individuals."   The roots of the Camorra have speculated that it originated from a secret 12th century organization of assassins.   The Beati Paoli were a Sicilian group that originated in the 12th century; no one knows why they were given that name, although it's presumably religious in nature. The tale claims that they formed in response to the persecution of the aristocratic class, and the majority of what we know comes from Francesco Maria Emanuele, Marquis of Villabianca. They not only attracted each and everyone to their cause, but they also created a hierarchy akin to a royal court. From there, they set up security services, employed themselves as paid killers, and... well, secrets prevent us from knowing what else. Since they obviously had an underground hideout, we do know that it was accessible through the crypt of a Palermo church.   There are even reports that the Camorra had a lot to do with helping the allies sabotage Mussollini in World War 2. Much information was originally written up as German control and sabotage during this time but many years after, with arrests of many members, documents were found that showed that the Camorra and other factions helped screw over Ol' Mussollini.   Crips   The Crips were only a social group, as one Original Gangster (OG) put it, and by most accounts, he is right (Kontos 99, 2003). While there are numerous uneven areas throughout the turbulent history of the Crips, there are also recurring themes. However, unlike the violent, frequently fatal incidents connected with the Crips, which are frequently portrayed with dramatic exaggeration, the genuine components of the narrative do not make for riveting television. Many OGs and gang members have voiced their shock and disappointment at how the Crips have been portrayed, while still admitting the group's flaws and its final transition from activism to gangsterism. Debra Addie Smith, a close friend of the founder of the Crips, once expressed that she “was wondering when someone was gonna finally tell the real story about the Crips”.   The Black Panther movement was being dismantled by the police, who were making "mass arrests, incarcerations, and deaths of black teenagers by the police," which led to the formation of the Crips, a grassroots group mostly made up of African-Americans. The CRIPS (Community Resources for Independent People) emerged in South Central Los Angeles, California, in 1969 with a message of resistance and justice during a period of despair and pessimism within the black community, following the ultimate dissolution of the Black Panther movement. Raymond Washington, a "fearless and strong 5-foot-8 fireplug who liked to fight and detested guns," is credited with founding the gang. He finally distanced himself and was killed as the Crips started using guns and formed a feud with the Bloods.   Stanley Tookie Williams met Raymond Lee Washington in 1969, and the two decided to unite their local gang members from the west and east sides of South Central Los Angeles in order to battle neighboring street gangs. Most of the members were 17 years old. Williams however appears to discount the sometimes-cited founding date of 1969 in his memoir, Blue Rage, Black Redemption. In his memoir, Williams also refuted claims that the group was a spin-off of the Black Panther Party or formed for a community agenda, writing that it "depicted a fighting alliance against street gangs—nothing more, nothing less." Washington, who attended Fremont High School, was the leader of the East Side Crips, and Williams, who attended Washington High School, led the West Side Crips.   Williams recalled that a blue bandana was first worn by Crips founding member Buddha, as a part of his color-coordinated clothing of blue Levis, a blue shirt, and dark blue suspenders. A blue bandana was worn in tribute to Buddha after he was shot and killed on February 23, 1973. The color then became associated with Crips.   By 1978, there were 45 Crip gangs, called sets, in Los Angeles. They were heavily involved in the production of PCP, marijuana and amphetamines. On March 11, 1979, Williams, a member of the Westside Crips, was arrested for four murders and on August 9, 1979, Washington was gunned down. Washington had been against Crip infighting and after his death several Crip sets started fighting against each other. The Crips' leadership was dismantled, prompting a deadly gang war between the Rollin' 60 Neighborhood Crips and Eight Tray Gangster Crips that led nearby Crip sets to choose sides and align themselves with either the Neighborhood Crips or the Gangster Crips, waging large-scale war in South Central and other cities. The East Coast Crips (from East Los Angeles) and the Hoover Crips directly severed their alliance after Washington's death. By 1980, the Crips were in turmoil, warring with the Bloods and against each other. The gang's growth and influence increased significantly in the early 1980s when crack cocaine hit the streets and Crip sets began distributing the drug. Large profits induced many Crips to establish new markets in other cities and states. As a result, Crips membership grew steadily and the street gang was one of the nation's largest by the late 1980s. In 1999, there were at least 600 Crip sets with more than 30,000 members transporting drugs in the United States.   Funny side note: As of 2015, the Crips gang consists of between approximately 30,000 and 35,000 members and 800 sets, active in 221 cities and 41 U.S. states. The states with the highest estimated number of Crip sets are California, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Members typically consist of young African American men, but can be white, Hispanic, Asian, and Pacific Islander. The gang also began to establish a presence in Canada in the early 1990s; Crip sets are active in the Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto.   Bloods   The Bloods gang was first established in Los Angeles as a defense against the Crips. The Pirus street gang, which was initially a group of the Crips, split out during an internal gang battle, united with other minor gangs to create the gang that would later become known as the Bloods, which is where the Bloods' origins and their rivalry with the Crips begin. At the time, there were three more Crips sets than Bloods sets. Despite this disparity in numbers, Bloods sets became more aggressive, especially towards rival Crips members, in an effort to demonstrate their dominance. Therefore, it is believed that the Pirus were the original Bloods founders. The gang's concentration changed to drug manufacture during the emergence of crack. The United Blood Nation, a gang that started out on Rikers Island, is frequently associated with blood sets on the East Coast.   The George Motchan Detention Center (GMDC), often known as C 73, is located on Rikers Island and is home to the United Blood Nation, also known as the Bloods. Problem offenders were separated from the rest of the jail facilities using GMDC. The Latin Kings were the most prominent and well-organized gang in the NYC jail system before this time. The majority-Hispanic Latin Kings were violently abusing White and occasionally African American prisoners. These African American prisoners created a defense organization they named the United Blood Nation after being organized by some of the most aggressive and charismatic prisoners. This prison group, United Blood Nation, was copying the Bloods street gangs in Los Angeles. Eight initial Blood sets were formed by many of the leaders of this freshly formed prison gang to recruit in their local communities around New York City.   By 1996, the Blood street gang had grown to include thousands of members and was becoming one of the most powerful gangs in existence. It also kept up a regular recruiting push. The Bloods were at this point less organized and more vicious than other gangs. Numerous slashings (attacks with a razor blade or knife) that were recorded during robberies were later determined to be Bloods initiations. The Bloods' signature ceremony was the Blood ritual. Bloods found recruits all throughout the East Coast.   In addition to members of other races and ethnicities, African Americans make up the majority of the Bloods. Early adolescence to mid-twenties is the average age of members, however some continue to retain leadership roles well into their late twenties and, on occasion, their thirties. Although there is no one person who can be identified as the Bloods' national leader, each individual Bloods set has a hierarchical leadership structure with distinct degrees of membership. Status within a gang is indicated by these membership levels. Each set is managed by a leader, who is often an older person with a longer criminal history. A fixed leader is not chosen; instead, he or she exerts themselves through creating and overseeing the gang's illicit businesses, using their reputation for brutality and violence as well as their own charisma to do so. The majority of the cast members are "soldiers," and they range in age from 16 to 22. Because of their readiness to use violence to win the respect of gang members and to deal with anybody who "disrespects" the set, soldiers have a strong feeling of dedication to their set and are very dangerous. Although they are not full members, "associates" participate in a variety of illegal acts and identify with the gang. If any women are involved in the gang, they are often associate members and are frequently employed by their male counterparts to carry guns, store narcotics, or engage in self-prostitution in order to support their group.   The surroundings of a recruit frequently affects recruitment. Bloods actively seek for school-age African Americans in particularly impoverished regions. Youth might find security and a sense of belonging by joining a gang. Economically deprived children who observe the trappings of gang life—gold jewelry, cash, pricey sportswear—can likewise experience instant satisfaction.   Based on how long a person has been a part of a certain set, blood sets have an informal hierarchy of levels.   The ranks are only a symbol of respect for individuals who have been a part of the set the longest and have survived the longest; they do not indicate leadership or domination over the set. Bloods of lesser ranks are not subject to those in positions of authority. Bloods of lesser status frequently refer to Bloods of higher rank as "Big Homies." They also call one another "relatives." Once a person joins a Blood set, they cannot quit the set or flip (move to another set) for the rest of their lives.   Members of the Bloods frequently refer to themselves as dawgs or ballers, HKs (an initialism for Hoover-Killer), CKs (an initialism for Crip-Killer), and MOBs (an initialism for Member of Bloods) (meaning drug dealers). Contrary to popular belief, Bloods & Crips are typically friendly amongst sets. Although it is against the law, bloods sometimes engage in civil war with one another. For example, the deuce 2x Crips and tray 3x Crips are at war, and they frequently work with Crip sets to eliminate their fellow blood competitors.   The many gang indicators used by Bloods members to distinguish themselves from other gangs include colors, attire, emblems, tattoos, jewelry, graffiti, language, and hand signals. Red is the gang's primary color. They like donning athletic attire, such as team coats that display their gang's colors. San Francisco 49ers, Miami Heat, Atlanta Hawks, Houston Rockets, Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Portland Trailblazers, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Clippers, New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia 76ers, and Chicago Bulls are a few of their favorite clubs.   The most commonly used Bloods symbols include the number “5,” the five pointed star, and the five pointed crown. Despite common misconception Bloods are not a people nation (with the exception of a few) but they will however tie flags with the people for defense or mutually such as how the Crips & BGDs consider themselves cousins. These symbols may be seen in the tattoos, jewelry, and clothing that gang members wear as well as in gang graffiti, which is used by the Bloods to mark their territory. Such graffiti can include gang names, nicknames, declaration of loyalty, threats against rival gangs, or a description of criminal acts in which the gang has been involved. Bloods graffiti might also include the word “Piru” which refers to the fact that the first known Bloods gang was formed by individuals from Piru Street in Compton, California. Yakuza   During the Tokugawa Shogunate (1603–1868), two distinct groups of outcasts gave rise to the yakuza. The tekiya were the first of such groups; they were nomadic peddlers who moved from village to village selling cheap things at fairs and markets. Many tekiya belonged to the burakumin social class, which was essentially underneath the four-tiered Japanese feudal social order and consisted of misfits or "non-humans."   The tekiya started forming close-knit gangs in the early 1700s under the direction of bosses and underbosses. The tekiya began to engage in customary organized crime operations including turf battles and protection rackets after being strengthened by fugitives from the upper classes. In keeping with a long-standing custom, tekiya frequently provided security for Shinto festivals and, in exchange for payment for protection, assigned stalls at the associated fairs.   Between 1735 and 1749, the shogun's government appointed oyabun, or officially recognized leaders, in an effort to quell gang conflicts among various tekiya factions and lessen the amount of fraud they engaged in. The oyabun was given the privilege of using a surname and carrying a sword, which was previously reserved for samurai. The term "oyabun," which refers to the bosses' roles as the leaders of their tekiya families, literally means "foster parent."   The bakuto, or gamblers, were the second social group that gave rise to the yakuza. During the Tokugawa era, gambling was outright prohibited and is still outlawed in Japan today. The bakuto hit the highways and preyed on gullible prey using hanafuda card games or dice games. They frequently adorned their bodies with vibrant tattoos, which gave rise to the practice of full-body tattooing among modern yakuza. The bakuto naturally expanded from their primary line of work as gamblers into lending shady business and other illicit pursuits.   Depending on how they make the majority of their money, certain yakuza groups may still refer to themselves as tekiya or bakuto. They still use the rites that were a component of the initiation ceremonies of the older organizations.   Yakuza gangs have seen a rise in prominence since the end of World War II following a decline during the conflict. More than 102,000 yakuza members in 2,500 different families were reported to be employed in Japan and overseas by the Japanese government in 2007. Despite the burakumin being officially exempt from discrimination since 1861, many gang members today are descended from that marginalized group. Others are ethnic Koreans, who are also subjected to a great deal of prejudice in Japanese society.   The distinctive characteristics of modern yakuza culture bear traces of the gangs' antecedents. For instance, a large number of yakuza have full-body tattoos that were applied with conventional bamboo or steel needles as opposed to sophisticated tattooing guns. Even the genitalia may be tattooed, which is a very unpleasant ritual. Although they typically wear long sleeves in public, the yakuza members frequently take their shirts off while playing cards with one other and show off their body art as a reference to the bakuto customs.   The practice of yubitsume, or cutting off the little finger's joint, is another aspect of yakuza culture. When a yakuza member disobeys or otherwise offends his boss, he will perform a yubitsume as an apology. The offender provides the boss with the top joint of his left pinkie finger, which he has amputated. Subsequent offenses result in the loss of other finger joints.   This practice dates back to the Tokugawa era; the gangster's sword grip is weakened by the loss of finger joints, theoretically making him more reliant on the group as a whole for defense. To blend in, many yakuza members wear prosthetic fingertips today.   The three biggest yakuza organizations currently in existence are the Sumiyoshi-kai, which started in Osaka and has about 20,000 members, the Yamaguchi-gumi, centered in Kobe, with 15,000 members, and the Inagawa-kai, located in Tokyo and Yokohama, with 20,000 members. The gangs engage in illegal activities such the trafficking of people and goods, the exportation of weapons, and the smuggling of illegal drugs. They do, however, also own a sizable amount of stock in well-established companies, and some of them are well-connected to the Japanese financial, banking, and real estate industries.   It's interesting to note that the Yamaguchi-gumi were the first to assist victims in the gang's hometown after the tragic Kobe earthquake of January 17, 1995. Similar to this, many yakuza organizations delivered truckloads of goods to the afflicted area following the earthquake and tsunami of 2011. The yakuza also has the strange benefit of suppressing small-time criminals. Because small-fry thieves don't intrude on yakuza turf, Kobe and Osaka, with their strong yakuza syndicates, are among the safest cities in an overall safe country.   The Japanese government has clamped down on the gangs in recent decades despite these unexpected social benefits of the yakuza. A strong new anti-racketeering law known as the Act for Prevention of Unlawful Activities by Criminal Gang Members was passed in March 1995. All of the listed businesses with ties to the yakuza were removed from the Osaka Securities Exchange in 2008. Yakuza bosses have been detained by authorities since 2009, and businesses that support the gangs have been closed down.   Even though the police are currently working very hard to quell yakuza activities in Japan, it appears improbable that the syndicates would completely vanish. After all, they have endured for more than 300 years and are intricately linked to many facets of Japanese society and culture.   Mara Salvatrucha(MS-13)   La Mara Salvatrucha, also referred to as MS-13, is a ruthless, inhumane street gang. As many as 40 states in the United States are now home to MS-13 members who commit murder, rape, maiming, and terror. Legendary tales exist of their heinous crimes.   No one contests the veracity of these statements. MS-13, like many street gangs, actually takes pride in its well-deserved image. The U.S. Department of Justice claims that the group's motto is "kill, rape, control."   If you believe President Donald Trump and others, America's broken immigration system is to blame for MS-13. The belief is that the United States will be a lot safer if it can stop MS-13 gang members from committing all of their mayhem, deport them, and stop them from crossing the border.   Unfortunately, things don't work that way.   "Attention to gangs is valid. About 13 percent of the homicides in this country are gang related. That's far more homicides than from mass shootings or terrorism," David Pyrooz, a sociologist at the University of Colorado who specializes in gangs and criminal networks, says. "But let's remember this. The maximum number of homicides associated with MS-13 in a given year — gang-related homicides — is about 2 percent of the total ... gang-related homicides in the United States. That is, I hate to use this language, but that is in many ways a drop in the bucket when it comes to gang activity."   "MS-13 is sort of the perfect boogeyman," Pyrooz says. "They are the moral panic; the connection to immigration, the connection to Latinos, and then the heinous violence, makes it so they can function as this evil boogeyman."   It's frequently forgotten in discussions of MS-13 that the organization didn't start out in Latin America and then storm the border to wreak havoc on the American way of life.   The gang was founded in the United States in the 1970s. El Salvadoran immigrants went to Los Angeles in an effort to escape a devastating civil conflict. There, they lived in areas of the city that were already under the influence of other gangs, used marijuana, and listened to heavy metal music. La Mara Salvatrucha was created when the newcomers came together to socialize and to defend themselves from other groups.   A brief explanation of the group name is as follows: In El Salvador, the word for "gang" is "mara." Here is an explanation of "Salvatrucha" and the subsequent 13 (again, from the DOJ):   Salvatrucha is a slang term for "alert," "watch out," or "cunning," and it combines the terms "Salva," which stands for "Salvadoran," and "trucha." The "13" stands for the 13th letter of the alphabet, or "M," signifying the group's ties to the Mexican Mafia, an organization that operates inside prisons.   Police started to crack down as the new gang confronted more established organizations in Los Angeles and linked up with other gangs (including the Mexican Mafia), deporting some members to El Salvador, where civil instability remained rife.   However, some of those MS-13 members returned to the United States in the 1980s, and others from El Salvador joined them. However, it seems unlikely that there was a premeditated influx of gang members from Latin America into the country.   "Criminal migration is real," according to "MS13 in the Americas: How the World's Most Notorious Gang Defies Logic, Resists Destruction," a report by The Center for Latin American & Latino Studies at American University in Washington D.C., and Insight Crime, a foundation that studies organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean. "But this does not appear to be part of a master plan, nor is it coordinated from some central headquarters. Gang members appear to move in the same patterns as the rest of the population, and many of them move to escape the gang and the violence associated with it."   Currently, MS-13 claims to have 10,000 members in the United States and 30,000 members worldwide. Thus, it ranks among the largest gangs in the entire world. The group is the first and only street gang to be listed as a global criminal organization by the American government.   Despite its size, MS-13 does not have a particularly significant criminal presence in the United States when compared to the total number of gang members in the nation. The National Gang Intelligence Center estimates that there are 1.4 million gang members nationally, and MS-13 is just one of the 33,000 gangs that the FBI has identified.   "What's interesting about them, what makes them different from other groups — partly in response to what the president has been tweeting and talking about them" Pyrooz says, "we can't think of an example in recent history of a single group that has attracted such attention on a national level."   According to news reports and those who have investigated the MS-13 gang, its members engage in money laundering, prostitution, drug trafficking, racketeering, and other illicit activities. They are extremely brutal in how they do their street business. The group has been implicated in numerous violent assaults, kidnappings, rapes, and most infamously, some horrifying murders.   "Gang violence is far more lethal than what it was four or five decades ago," Pyrooz says.   From "MS-13 in the Americas": "Violence is a major part of the glue that binds the MS-13. It is part of every stage of an MS-13 member's life: Potential members commit violent acts to be considered for membership and ultimately to gain entry; they are then beaten into the gang in a ritual that has left more than one permanently scarred; they move up the gang ladder by 'putting in the work' and showing 'commitment,' euphemisms for committing violent acts in the name of the gang."   According to the Washington Post, up to 10 MS-13 members lured a guy into a park in Maryland in 2017 before stabbing him more than 100 times, beheading him, and chopping out his heart. In vengeance for her boyfriend's murder, an 18-year-old Virginia lady admitted to taking part in the killing of a 15-year-old girl. The 18-year-old killed the younger girl by stabbing her 13 times and recorded it to show MS-13 leaders.   "It's hard to say that the attention is not undue or not deserved," Pyrooz says. "But it's hard to be able to focus specifically on them without paying more attention to what the problem of gang activity is in the United States as a whole." The 25 Best Gang Movies of All Time - IMDb

En diálogo con La W, Jeremy McDermott, codirector de InSight Crime, se refirió a la investigación que la DIAN adelanta en su contra.

Juan Esteban Builes creció en una familia ganadera antioqueña y siguió los pasos de sus ancestros por muchos años. Aunque decía amar a los animales y de vez en cuando rescataba algunos, en el fondo había algo que lo conflictuaba dentro de su trabajo. Un día, en una conversación con su hijo de 11 años frente a un toro, su vida tomó otro rumbo para siempre. Elemental es un podcast producido por Nicolás Ibargüen, La No Ficción y Exile Content Studio. Presentado por: Nicolás Ibargüen / Investigación y guión: Consuelo Pardo y Miguel Reyes / Mezcla y diseño de sonido: Daniel Díaz y Valentina Fonseca / Música original de intro y cierre: Manuela Mejía / Handpan: Felipe Ibargüen / Ilustración de este episodio: Camila Preciado / Carátula del show: Angélica Duque / Síguenos en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podcastelementalAgradecemos a Juan Esteban Builes por la entrevista y por recibirnos en su santuario: La Voz de Goyo.También queremos hacer un reconocimiento a nuestras fuentes documentales: al Atlas de la carne de la Fundación Heinrich Böll y Le Monde Diplomatique, la investigación sobre la “Deforestación en la Amazonía colombiana” de Katie Jones y María Fernanda Ramírez de InSight Crime, y la nota de Dejusticia sobre la apropiación de Baldíos.

Del pobre resultado de Lasso en las encuestas hablamos con la analista María Paz Jervis. De la investigación sobre Venezuela, con Jeremy McDermott de InSight Crime. Y del partido entre el Liverpool y el Real Madrid, con el periodista Jorge Barraza

La ONG InSight Crime presento un informe titulado "La revolución de la cocaína en Venezuela" que advierte sobre la transición de Venezuela hacia la producción del alcaloide, la forma en que el régimen de Maduro busca regular el narcotráfico y el creciente poder de la guerrilla del ELN en el vecino país.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

14 de diciembre | Nueva YorkHola, maricoper. Este lunes fue el cumpleaños de Taylor Swift. En casa de quien les escribe es feriado espiritual oficial, así que celebramos como es debido: escuchando los últimos cuatro álbumes en loop. El plural es porque estoy contando a mi mamá, que ya sabe tararear ‘Message In A Bottle' aunque no entienda nada de lo que dice ¿Tenés una canción favorita? ¡Contame!Bienvenido a La Wikly diaria, una columna de actualidad y dos titulares rápidos para pasar el resto del día bien informado. Si quieres comentar las noticias en nuestra comunidad privada de Discord, puedes entrar rellenando este formulario.La Wikly es una newsletter joven e independiente que se mantiene con el apoyo de los suscriptores. Súmate al proyecto:Leer esta newsletter te llevará 4 minutos y 52 segundos.Go ape, my man. Bienvenido a La Wikly.

* episode starts at min 26. From war lords, to drug kingpins, Cartels, criminals, gangs, serial killers, and ever day psychos, World on Drugs with Steve Furey deep dives into subjects and people other wont. We analyze it through the lens of comedy, to try and see how and why these people/event went down the wrong road. So come join me, Steve Furey and my funny friends to learn about some of the people who stay in the shadows. Guest is Malik Bazille (@MalikBazille) Researcher Dr. Joe Hoffswell (@drhoffswell) A two part banger looking at the 18th Street Gang coming your way! Part 1 I'll be talking about how they started, the dude who made it, their rules and regulations, what makes them different, and the things they've been doing in the good ole US of A! Part 2 will focus on how they became a transnational terrorist threat (according to the Trump administration) and their activities across Central America. A lot of it will be out of El Salvador because they have a boatload of power there! Sources (Reagan Latin America Policies) https://tnsr.org/roundtable/policy-roundtable-reagan-and-latin-america/ Information on 18th street markings and colors http://www.ncgangcops.org/18th_Street.html Ortiz Jr., J.A. (2012) Are the Mara Salvatrucha and 18th street gangs a threat to our national security. (MA Thesis) Indiana State University Retrieved from http://scholars.indstate.edu/bitstream/handle/10484/4766/Ortiz%2C%20Jose.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y Insight Crime overview of 18th Street in El Salvador https://insightcrime.org/el-salvador-organized-crime-news/barrio-18-profile-2/ Stoll, D. (2013). Homies and hermanos: Gods and gangs in Central America. Social Forces. Retrieved from https://sites.middlebury.edu/dstoll/files/2018/06/Review-WardBrenneman-Gangs-copy.pdf Congressional Report on MS-13 and 18th Street https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/118413/2007-11-02_Gangs_Threat.pdf van der Borgh, C. (2016) The truce between the mara Salvatrucha and 18thstreet gang in El Salvador. Retrieved from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wim-Savenije/publication/309397890_The_Truce_between_the_Mara_Salvatrucha_and_18th_Street_Gang_In_El_Salvador_From_Opportunity_to_Failure/links/580e402908aef766ef10e248/The-Truce-between-the-Mara-Salvatrucha-and-18th-Street-Gang-In-El-Salvador-From-Opportunity-to-Failure.pdf --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Jeremy McDermott is an investigative reporter and the Director of Insight Crime. Modern drug lords in South America learned that anonymity is a better defence than a well armed militia. Jeremy has spent the last decade of his life chasing one of the most notorious members of The Invisibles, Memo Fantasma "The Ghost". Expect to learn how the Vice President of Colombia was implicated in a drug lord's operations, how The Ghost deleted his entire identity, why Jeremy turned up on a kingpin's doorstep in Madrid, why the DEA probably had Memo on their payroll and much more... Sponsors: Get 20% discount on all pillows at https://thehybridpillow.com (use code: MW20) Reclaim your fitness and book a Free Consultation Call with ActiveLifeRX at http://bit.ly/rxwisdom Extra Stuff: Read the full article on Insight Crime - https://insightcrime.org/investigations/invisible-drug-lord-ghost/  Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Steven Dudley is the Director of InSight Crime, a crime & public security reporter and an author. MS-13 are one of the best known gangs in the world. President Trump declared war on them and called them a national security threat. Today we get to hear exactly how the gang works from the most informed MS-13 expert on the planet. Expect to learn how MS-13 have become so dangerous without any single leader, how the gang initiates new members, the terrifyingly difficult prospect of trying to leave the organisation, how the gang are both victimisers and victims, the danger of them entering into politics and much more... Sponsors: Get over 37% discount on all products site-wide from MyProtein at http://bit.ly/modernwisdom (use code: MODERNWISDOM) Get 20% discount & free shipping on your Lawnmower 3.0 at https://www.manscaped.com/ (use code MODERNWISDOM) Extra Stuff: Buy MS-13: https://amzn.to/3xxOktc Follow Steven on Twitter - https://twitter.com/stevensdudley  Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Esta mañana en #Noticias7AM, realizamos una entrevista a distancia con Steven Dudley, Codirector y cofundador de Insight Crime, quien nos platica sobre el reciente descubrimiento de que los traficantes de migrantes les ponen brazaletes para ubicar a los pobres de los aún más pobres.

Tres reportajes publicados en la alianza compuesta por Runrunes, Tal Cual y El Pitazo sobresalen esta semana en el episodio 112 del podcast Tres en Uno.En Runrunes encontramos una detallada radiografía de lo acontecido en el estado Apure, donde se libra un combate entre la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana y grupos disidentes irregulares de Colombia. Bajo el título Claves de la guerra que se está librando en Apure se desnuda este suceso que ha dejado muertos, heridos y desplazados. El mismo dio pie al foro organizado por Runrunes Guerrilla colombiana: un problema de Venezuela donde participaron expertos como Claudia Carrasquilla, ex directora de Crimen Organizado de la Fiscalía General de Colombia, Jeremy McDermott de InSight Crime y Kyle Johnson de la Fundación Conflict Responses.Tal Cual nos ofrece un reportaje sobre la deteriorada salud en Venezuela que lleva por nombre Dializarse, el calvario de los pacientes renales en Venezuela.Un recorrido por varios estados nos muestra las penurias que deben pasar los pacientes renales para cumplir sus ciclos. Desde no tener efectivo para pagar transporte hasta esperar porque el Estado repare una máquina de diálisis, pasando por la escasez de gasolina y medicamentos, es lo que toca al paciente venezolano. Por El Pitazo sobresalió el reportaje Caño de los Becerros, la vida después de la explosion de 168 bombonas.9 muertos y 45 heridos causó un estallido múltiple de cilindros de gas en diciembre de 2020 en la localidad de Monagas. A tres meses del suceso son muchas las necesidades y promesas incumplidas del Estado.Los habitantes del sector reclaman por justicia, pero también por medicinas, alimentos, enseres y viviendas dignas.

On this edition, we explore an issue that has had a particular impact on Long Island: criminal justice, street gangs, and the history of MS-13. First we present highlights of a special panel held at Hofstra University last October called The Gangs of Long Island: Mythmaking, Policymaking and the Origins of MS-13. The panel featured two guests who know and understand from unique perspectives the history of MS-13: Steven Dudley, Investigative journalist and cofounder of InSight Crime, a think tank devoted to investigating organized crime and corruption in the Americas. He is the author of the just published book MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang. Also, Sergio Argueta, among the most influential community activists on Long Island. Sergio is the founder and Board President of S.T.R.O.N.G. Youth, Inc. (Struggling To Reunite Our New Generation), one of the leading gang prevention and intervention agencies in the northeastern United States. Then, we hear from award-winning San Francisco-based journalist Roberto Lovato, who tells us about his just published book UNFORGETTING: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. The book tells the story of his life growing up between the streets of Los Angeles and the internal conflict in El Salvador, and how he has witnessed first-hand the emergence of MS-13 in both places. Hosted by Mario A. Murillo.Originally aired on 02/09/2021 on WRHU-FM

On this edition, we explore an issue that has had a particular impact on Long Island: criminal justice, street gangs, and the history of MS-13. First we present highlights of a special panel held at Hofstra University last October called The Gangs of Long Island: Mythmaking, Policymaking and the Origins of MS-13. The panel featured two guests who know and understand from unique perspectives the history of MS-13: Steven Dudley, Investigative journalist and cofounder of InSight Crime, a think tank devoted to investigating organized crime and corruption in the Americas. He is the author of the just published book MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang. Also, Sergio Argueta, among the most influential community activists on Long Island. Sergio is the founder and Board President of S.T.R.O.N.G. Youth, Inc. (Struggling To Reunite Our New Generation), one of the leading gang prevention and intervention agencies in the northeastern United States. Then, we hear from award-winning San Francisco-based journalist Roberto Lovato, who tells us about his just published book UNFORGETTING: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas. The book tells the story of his life growing up between the streets of Los Angeles and the internal conflict in El Salvador, and how he has witnessed first-hand the emergence of MS-13 in both places. Hosted by Mario A. Murillo.

El periodismo de investigación ha convertido al periodista latinoamericano pero sobre todo al venezolano en un extraordinario protagonista de pesquisas y descifrador de pistas. Al menos 86 investigaciones se han abierto fuera de Venezuela. En 52 de estos expedientes, se sigue la pista a más de 30 mil millones de dólares que estarían relacionados con operaciones de lavado de activos, de acuerdo con la información recopilada por la página web, Chavismo INC, proyecto realizado por Transparencia Venezuela, la Alianza Rebelde Investiga (ARI) y la plataforma latinoamericana de periodismo Connectas. Fueron muchos los trabajos abordados este año. Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, Armando.info, In Sight Crime, las unidades de investigación de Runrunes, El Pitazo y Tal Cual, entre otros, dan cuenta de la trascendencia de la labor del periodista de investigación. César Miguel Rondón sostuvo interesantes conversaciones al respecto con Mercedes de Freitas,@soymerchy, Directora ejecutiva y fundadora de Transparencia Venezuela; Joseph Poliszuk @jopoliszuk periodista de Armando.info; Nathan Jaccard, @NJaccard, periodista y editor para América Latina de Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project; Lisseth Boon,@boonbar, coordinadora de la unidad de investigación de Runrunes y Jeremy Mcdermott, @jerrymcdermott, Director ejecutivo y cofundador de InSight Crime. #Venezuela #Investigacion #PeriodismoDeInvestigación #Corrupción #Censura #LibertadDeExpresión --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sincodigo/message

In this 4th Episode of the Series, we talk about Deborah Bonello's investigations on organized crime and illegal logging in Mexico, and then jump into a discussion about her current book project on Women in the Sinaloa Cartel. Deborah Bonello is a journalist, editor and investigator and has been based in Latin America since 2005. She is a former employee of The Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times and InSight Crime, and has reported for many international media outlets. In recent years, much of Deborah's coverage has focused on organized crime and drug trafficking across Latin America, from investigating the Central American street gangs MS-13 and Barrio 18, to the role of Mexico's cartels in the illicit production and trafficking of fentanyl. Before starting her current role as Senior Editor for Latin America at VICE World News, Deborah was a regular contributor to Vice, Ozy.com and the Telegraph. She lives in Mexico City. She is also an award-winning producer and videographer.

El régimen al desnudo ¿Cómo ponerle fin a la alianza entre narcoparamilitares y élites políticas? SARA TUFANO El segundo año del gobierno de Iván Duque se caracterizó por evidenciar la relación entre élites políticas y narcotráfico. El 3 de marzo de 2020, se conocieron las interceptaciones al extinto narcotraficante José Guillermo Hernández Aponte, alias “Ñeñe”, en las que este hacía referencia a una posible compra de votos para la campaña de Duque durante la segunda vuelta presidencial en 2018 (Guillén, 2020). A finales de marzo, la fundación InSight Crime publicó una investigación sobre los vínculos entre Guillermo León Acevedo, alias “Memo Fantasma” (McDermott, 2020)[1], reconocido narcotraficante paramilitar, y la vicepresidenta Marta Lucía Ramírez. La investigación revelaba que la empresa de la vicepresidenta y de su marido, Hitos Urbanos, había gestionado la construcción de un proyecto inmobiliario de “Memo Fantasma”. Adicionalmente, en junio de 2020, se descubrió que el hermano de la vicepresidenta había sido arrestado y condenado en 1997 a 57 meses de cárcel en Estados Unidos por tráfico de heroína (Guillén & Martínez, 2020), una información que la vicepresidenta nunca dio a conocer. En esta investigación se afirma que “Memo Fantasma era realmente un jefe, o el jefe, del Bloque Central Bolívar, responsable de la muerte de unas 10.000 a 15.000 personas”. Hay que destacar que estas noticias fueron el resultado de las investigaciones de los periodistas independientes Gonzalo Guillén y Julián Martínez. Los grandes medios no solo se han quedado callados frente a estas denuncias, sino que han puesto en tela de juicio el trabajo de estos periodistas.

Guests: Mike Huckabee, 44th Governor or Arkansas and Former Republican Presidential Candidate, On to discuss his book "The Three C's That Made America." Stephen Dudley, Co-founder and Co-director of InSight Crime, On to discuss his book "MS-13" Pete Trabucco, Travel Specialist, On to discuss safe air travel during COVID-19. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steven Dudley is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, a think tank focused on organized crime in the Americas, and a senior fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. Dudley combines reporting from the ground with deep analysis. He has written for newspapers, magazines and think tanks. He has reported for weeklies and some of the largest news outlets in the world. And he has worked on government reports that inform future priority areas and country reports for asylum lawyers. Dudley is the former Bureau Chief of the Miami Herald in the Andean Region and the author of Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Routledge 2004). Dudley has also reported from Haiti, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba and Miami for National Public Radio and the Washington Post, among others. Dudley has a BA in Latin American History from Cornell University and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He did the Knight Fellowship at Stanford University in 2007-2008, and is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. In 2012 to 2013, he was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC where he currently resides. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/steve-richards/support

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“The Rise of the Parallel Pandemic” explores the growth of the global trade in counterfeit products amid the COVID-19 crisis. Organized crime groups are capitalizing on fear, supply shortages & growing demand to sell their products & expand their influence in existing and emerging consumer markets. Now more than ever, it is important to understand the health, societal & economic risks posed by consuming illicit medical products. Sources for “The Rise of the Parellel Pandemic” include: ** Anastasia Austin, “4 Ways Microtraffickers are Getting Around Coronavirus Restrictions”, Insight Crime, 12 June 2020, https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/microtrafficking-coronavirus-restrictions/ ** “Fake medicines can be counterfeit, contaminated or mislabelled. Don't take the chance.”, Interpol, https://www.interpol.int/en/Crimes/Illicit-goods/Shop-safely/Fake-medicines ** “Global operation sees a rise in fake medical products related to COVID-19”, Interpol, 19 March 2020, https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2020/Global-operation-sees-a-rise-in-fake-medical-products-related-to-COVID-19 ** Sam Piranty, “Coronavirus fuels a surge in fake medicines”, BBC, 9 April 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/health-52201077 ** Jay Kennedy, “Buyer beware: Counterfeit markets can flourish during a public health crisis”, The Conversation, 26 March 2020, https://theconversation.com/buyer-beware-counterfeit-markets-can-flourish-during-a-public-health-crisis-134492 ** Mimi Yagoub, “Colombia Busts Fake Medicine Ring Worth Millions”, Insight Crime, 28 July 2016, https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/colombia-busts-fake-medicine-ring-worth-millions/ **OECD/EUIPO (2020), “Trade in Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Products”, Illicit Trade, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/a7c7e054-en ** Tom Kington, “Patients die as Sicilian mafia buys into the hospital service”, The Guardian, 1 January 2007, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jan/01/italy.mainsection ** “WHO Global Surveillance & Monitoring System for Substandard and Falsified Products”, World Health Organization, 2017 https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/326708/9789241513425-eng.pdf?ua=1 ** Zachary Goodwin, “Brazil Smuggles In Hydroxychloroquine Amid Coronavirus Despair”, Insight Crime, 4 June 2020, https://www.insightcrime.org/news/brief/brazil-coronavirus-hydroxychloroquine/ ** And on last week's episode: Rafi Letzter, “The coronavirus didn't really start at that Wuhan 'wet market'”, Live Science, May 2020, https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-did-not-start-at-wuhan-wet-market.html

En exclusiva: Habla Jeremy McDermott, periodista de InSight Crime, quien reveló la investigación que evidencia nexos entre el narcotraficante Guillermo León Acevedo, alias “Memo Fantasma”, y la empresa Hitos Urbanos, cuyos socios son Marta Lucía Ramírez, actual vicepresidente de Colombia y su esposo Álvaro Rincón.

La noticia corrió como pólvora el viernes, ¡Detuvieron a Alex Saab en Cabo Verde! Al fin, capturaron un valioso eslabón en la cadena de corrupción del régimen de Maduro. Pero, ¿quién es este empresario colombiano, con una orden de captura, que está siendo investigado en varios países por blanqueo de capitales, financiamiento al terrorismo y otros delitos y ahora está detenido en Cabo Verde? Según, Insight Crime, Álex Naím Saab Morán, comercializaba llaveros de promoción empresarial y uniformes cuando conoció a Álvaro Pulido –otro empresario colombiano a quien se le relaciona con la ex senadora colombiana Piedad Córdova — quien lo habría invitado a ser su socio en varios negocios en Venezuela. ¿Por qué Alex Saab, es tan importante para el régimen de Maduro?, ¿qué información acerca del régimen de Maduro podría conocer Alex Saab? ¿por qué es ahora cuando vienen a reconocer abiertamente su relación con el régimen? César Miguel Rondón aborda el tema junto a los periodistas de Armando.info Joseph Poliszuk @jopoliszuk y Roberto Deniz @robertodeniz y el periodista Juan Carlo Giraldo @ChichoGiraldoRe Editor judicial de la Red + Noticias --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sincodigo/message

De acuerdo a un informe de la ONU y del centro de investigación sobre el crimen organizado en América Latina, Insight Crime, los homicidios en algunos países de la región, se han reducido a causa del confinamiento, como en México, El Salvador, Honduras y Guatemala. En cuanto a actividades delictivas, algunas se mantienen con limitaciones como, por ejemplo, el narcotráfico y el secuestro. Según expertos, los criminales han tenido que reinventarse, en medio de la emergencia para seguir obteniendo dinero. ¿La pandemia se ha vuelto una oportunidad para el crimen organizado?, el debate con Jeremy Mcdermott, codirector y cofundador de Insight Crime, Eduardo Vergara, director ejecutivo de la fundación Chile 21 y Jairo Libreros, analista permanente de NTN24.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

Las estadísticas oficiales de países como Honduras, Guatemala y el Salvador muestran una reducción considerable de los homicidios en marzo, abril y en lo que va de mayo en comparación a lo registrado en el mismo periodo en 2019.  Para los investigadores aún no es posible afirmar que el confinamiento para evitar la propagación del Coronavirus ha sido el único responsable de dicha reducción, puesto que la tendencia iba a la baja, pero sin duda ha tenido un efecto positivo para frenar la criminalidad.  Lo que no han conseguido durante años las estrategias de seguridad contra pandilleros y narcotraficantes, lo ha hecho una pandemia. En Honduras, en cuarentena desde marzo, se han registrado 217 homicidios menos que en el mismo periodo que en 2019. En Guatemala, hubo 174 asesinatos en abril cuando el año pasado fueron 376.  También El Salvador ha registrado una caída del 58% de los homicidios con 441 muertos en los primeros meses del 2020, y eso que el ultimo fin de semana de abril fue sangriento con 50 muertes entre el 24 y el 26 de abril.  “Puede haber una relación, sin embargo hay que tomar en cuenta que el triángulo norte de Centroamérica viene con disminuciones importantes de homicidios desde hace un tiempo. Sobre todo en el caso de Honduras y Guatemala ha habido una disminución sostenida en los últimos años. En el caso de El Salvador es reciente, pero se había reducido ya en los últimos seis u ocho meses. Esa disminución se ha sostenido con la epidemia y se ha hecho más visible”, explica a RFI Héctor Silva, investigador de Insight Crime.  La instauración de toques de queda y el despliegue de patrullas para hacer respetar el confinamiento habrían jugado un rol importante en el repliegue de pandilleros que controlan barrios enteros. Para el investigador, esto puede suponer un arma de doble filo e incluso « una bomba de tiempo”.  “Eventualmente las medidas (para hacer respetar el confinamiento) se van a terminar y los ejércitos van a salir poco a poco de las calles y los recursos se van a destinar a otras cosas. En Centroamérica lo que puede pasar es que estos grupos criminales afiancen aún más el poder que tienen en los territorios y que luego para el Estado sea mucho más difícil intervenir en esos territorios si no es a través de pactos con ellos”, estima Héctor Silva. 

Jeremy McDermott, codirector de Insight Crime, habló en Mañanas BLU sobre el impacto de la pandemia del coronavirus en economías ilegales como la del narcotráfico. De acuerdo con el especialista, en los últimos dos meses se han producido cambios en el precio de Europa y mercado de las drogas en el viejo continente se ha visto más afectado que el de Estados Unidos. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

“Se ofrece recompensa millonaria (…) en búsqueda y captura” … El Departamento de Estado de EEUU, ofrece una recompensa de 15 millones de dólares por información que permita el arresto de Nicolás Maduro y de 10 millones de dólares por información para lograr la captura de otros funcionarios de su régimen. Como si de una película del viejo oeste se tratara, los venezolanos nos sorprendimos este jueves 26 de marzo con el anuncio realizado por el Fiscal General de Estados Unidos William Barr. Cesar Miguel Rondon analiza esta noticia junto a destacados periodistas de investigación como Ronna Rísquez @ronnarisquez (Insight Crime), Roberto Deniz @robertodeniz (Armando.info), César Batiz @CBatiz (El Pitazo) y la directora ejecutiva y fundadora de Transparencia Venezuela, Mercedes de Freitas @soymerchy --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sincodigo/message

About the Lecture: The aim of this lecture is to discuss present and future of Angolan political process and how corruption is undermining the new democratic process in this country. About the Panelists: Florindo Chivucute is the founder and Executive Director of Friends of Angola (FoA), and Radio Angola (an online radio station), activist, blogger and digital media specialist. Florindo earned his Master's degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and has over 5 years of experience working in non-profit organizations, international development, international relations, peace building, and education while being active in the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) in the United States. Hashem Mekki, MA, has taught Arabic Language, Culture & Middle East Media at IWP since 2012. He is the owner of Bridge Language Solutions, providing an array of language translation, interpretation and teaching services to the Washington DC metropolitan area, and the founder of Kele Global, a nonprofit organization that promotes education, health, and economic empowerment in the Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan. He also teaches Arabic language to federal employees & professionals at the National Nuclear Security Administration at the Department of Energy. Mr. Mekki volunteers with the IWP Center for Human Rights and International Affairs by providing Arabic translations & strategic cultural perspectives on North Africa and Middle East. Mr. Mekki previously worked with the Center for Strategic and International Studies and served on the board of Voices of Sudan, a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. He holds Bachelors degrees in both Political Science and International Studies from the City College of New York, and a Master of Arts in Strategic Studies and International Politics from IWP. Malik M. Chaka is a retired U.S. Government official who served as Director, Threshold Programs, for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, and as a Professional Staff Member with House Africa Subcommittee. He first visited the Angola marquis as a journalist in 1973 prior to independence on November 11, 1975 and travelled widely in the country over a four decade period. Mr. Chaka has written on Angola topics for the Times of Zambia, Zambia Daily Mail, and London-based Africa Analysis. He testified before Congress on the Angolan Government of National Unity. Mr. Chaka served as the Director of Communications for the Free Angolan Information Service for seven years, and produced and edited Angola Update and Angola Economic Notes, two internationally distributed newsletters. He was a member of a Council on Foreign Relations independent commission that issued Toward An Angola Strategy: Prioritizing U.S.-Angola Relations in 2007. Kyra Gurney is a reporter for ICIJ. She previously worked at the Miami Herald and at InSight Crime, a nonprofit journalism organization based in Colombia that covers organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean. At the Miami Herald, Kyra was part of a team investigating the illegal gold trade for a series called “Dirty Gold Clean Cash,” which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. She also covered education and local government. Kyra has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in comparative literature from Colorado College. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Conversamos con Steven Dudley, codirector y cofundador de Insight Crime, sobre la violencia en América Latina.

On our eighth episode, Steven Dudley talks to hosts’ Chris and Ken about organized crime in Latin America, CICIG’s struggle for survival in Guatemala, gang involvement in El Salvador politics and shares how his interest in investigating organized crime in the region came about.

La experiencia de 5 décadas de conflicto en Colombia le serviría al ELN para formar una guerrilla en Venezuela que se opondría al nuevo gobierno, dice el director del organismo See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Académicos especializados en el tema se dan cita para analizar el panorama criminal en Colombia y la región durante este año, así como sus posibles alcances para el 2019.Organzian:Dirección de Investigación Facultad de Ciencia Política, Gobierno y Relaciones InternacionalesObservatorio Colombiano de Crimen Organizado Facultad de Ciencia Política, Gobierno y Relaciones Internacionales.InSight Crime y Fescol

In this week's podcast, we finish our series on illegal campaign financing in Guatemala, focusing on current President Jimmy Morales.

EPISODE #108-- What's this one about? Oh, right, today we talk about a free-wheeler at a gym, America's love affair with messing up prophylatics, and a drug dog with a cartel bounty on its head. All this and more Married With Children talk and some first grade geography facts. Support our show at Patreon.com/quality. Follow James on twitter @kislingtwits and Alex @giraffetermath. Follow us on tumblr at https://worldsamess.tumblr.com/. Thanks to Sef Joosten for our show art (http://spexdoodles.tumblr.com). Our theme music is "The World's a Mess" by X. Thanks to our sources at the Washington Post, CBS Boston, WBZTV, CDC, Daily Mail, and Insight Crime. #Crime #WarOnDrugs #Dogs #Africa #Namibia #FamilyPlanning #WrapItUp #Vaping  

In our podcast this week, we return to Guatemala for the second of three stories on illicit campaign financing in that country to discuss Juan Carlos Monzón, the former private secretary of Guatemala's ex-Vice President Roxana Baldetti.

In our inaugural podcast, we look at Guatemala's putrid campaign finance system through the story of Obdulio Solórzano, a political fixer for the UNE party who was assassinated in 2010, after helping Álvaro Colom reached the presidency.

After a week of fury and fire, On the Media takes a chill pill. We look at chilling warnings and opaque impediments, from reporters working with whistleblowers or trying to cover immigration courts, to media organizations reckoning with their future in the post-Gawker era.  1. Dana Gold of the Government Accountability Project speaks with us about the incomplete patchwork of legal protections for journalists in light of the government's newfound zeal for cracking down on “leakers.” 2. Immigration reporter Julia Preston of the Marshall Project discusses the challenges journalists face covering immigration courts. Then, Judge Dana Leigh Marks, President of the National Association of Immigration Judges, describes the unique challenges facing judges in the immigration court system.  3. InSight Crime's Steven Dudley debunks some of the myths around the notorious MS-13 and explains why it's not all that the Trump administration describes. 4. Brian Knappenberger, producer and director of Nobody Speak: The Trials of the Free Press, gives us a behind-the-scenes look at his film, and describes the role of big money and morality in commanding the free press. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org.

This is the full audio from our second Security and Development Seminar Series. This session explores how trafficking in illicit drugs, weapons, and persons by transnational criminal organizations impedes development in many Latin American countries. Audio recorded on December 1st, 2016. For more information go to: bit.ly/2eyCcQU Speakers: 1. Thomas Abt - Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Center for International Development 2. Daniel Mejia - Secretary of Security of Bogota, Colombia 3. Steven Dudley - Co-director, InSight Crime, Wilson Center 4. João M P De Mello - Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

CID has launched its new Security and Development Seminar Series and over the 2016-2017 academic year, it will host four high-level discussions exploring the intersections between security, growth, and development in Latin America. CID Student Ambassador Gustavo Payan-Luna interviews the speakers from the 2nd session, which explored how trafficking in illicit drugs, weapons, and persons by transnational criminal organizations impedes development in many Latin American countries, with a focus on Colombia. Speakers: •Daniel Mejia, Secretary of Security of Bogota, Colombia •Steven Dudley, Co-director, InSight Crime, Wilson Center •João M P De Mello, Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies The interview took place on December 1st, 2016. More information about the event and the speakers can be found at: growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/security-and…minar-series

This week, Latin Pulse dives into the Drug War.  The program explores two of the most important fronts in that war: Mexico and Venezuela.  The segment of the program on Mexico gives an overview of the condition of various cartels and why the strategy to focus on drug kingpins has mostly failed. The segment on Venezuela focuses on the ties between Venezuela's military and the drug trade. The news segment of the program gives the latest information about the controversy surrounding 43 missing university students in Mexico and whether they were massacred by police and drug cartels colluding together.The program includes in-depth interviews with:Jo Tuckman of The Guardian;Jeremy McDermott of InSight Crime.Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell; Producer: Jim Singer; andAssociate Producer: Gabriela Canchola.(To download or stream this podcast, click here.) (The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 42 MB.) podcastnewsLatin AmericaMexicoVenezuelaviolenceEnrique Pena NietodisapperancescrimepolicemilitaryDEAcocaineCentral AmericaFelipe CalderonArubajusticeimpunityBrazilcartelsPanamacorruptionPRIDrug WardrugsgangsAyotzinapapoliticsBeltran Leyva Cartelorganized crimeSinaloa Cartelprotest movementTijuana Cartelcivil societyviolencehomicidemediaColombiaHondurasEcuadorFranceFARCjusticeCubaimperialismdrug cartelsGulf CartelKnights TemplarJalisco CartelDominican RepublicAir FranceUnited StatesJavier 'El Chapo' GuzmanU.S. State DepartmentLos Zetas CartelHugo Armando Carvajal

It's the fourth anniversary of Latin Pulse, and the program celebrates in its own way:  a medley of out-takes and pithy comments from the most popular programs of the past year. The topics on the program range from a review of the crisis of unaccompanied minors on the U.S.-Mexico border to covering various fronts in the Drug War.  The program also includes segments on the economic impact of China on Latin America.  The news segment of the program covers the aftereffects of the earthquake in Chile that saw a million people evacuate their homes.The program includes interview segments with:Eric Olson of the Woodrow Wilson Center; Jo Tuckman of The Guardian;Jeremy McDermott of InSight Crime;Mark Jones of Rice University;Kevin Gallagher of Boston University; andIgnacio Siles of the Universidad de Costa Rica.Executive Producer: Rick Rockwell; Technical Director: Jim Singer; andAssociate Producer: Natalie Ottinger.(To download or stream this podcast, click here.) (The program is 30 minutes in length and the file size is 42 MB.) podcastnewsLatin AmericaGuatemalacorruptionpoliticsChiledisasterCubaMexicoMichelle BacheletCentral AmericaUnited StatesBrazilDrug WarEl SalvadorU.S. CongressZetas CartelGuerreros Unidos GangKnights Templar CartelimmigrationviolenceBeltran-Leyva CartelGulf CarteldiplomacypovertyTijuana CartelSinaloa CartelgangscartelspoliceHondurasjusticecrimeVenezuelamilitaryFelipe CalderonHugo ChavezNicolas MaduroCosta RicamediaChinaArgentinaCubaParaguayUruguayminingelectionsagricultureenvironmentPeruEcuadorBrazilColombianewspapersinternetadvertisingtradeBarack ObamaThe AmazonLa Nacioneconomics

England captain Wayne Rooney made his 100th appearance last weekend but former England star Chris Waddle claims that it's easier to win caps now than it was in previous generations. Wesley Stephenson asks whether Waddle is right and how many caps would greats like Bobby Moore, Maradona and Pele have won if they'd played in today's era. Plus the programme hears from Professor Carlos Vilalta from the University of California San Diego and Steven Dudley from Insight Crime about claims that “98% of homicides in Mexico are unsolved.” An amazing statistic but is it true? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.