Alessandro Ford
An ongoing gang war in Ecuador’s prisons has made 2020 the bloodiest year on record for inmates,...
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Proxy Gang Wars Fuel Record Homicides in Ecuador’s Prisons
The world’s biggest oil trading firm faces a large fine after a multi-country investigation...
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Major Oil Trader Fined for Bribes Across Latin America
A burst of attempted contraband smuggling into Panama’s largest prison complex has challenged...
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Drones Rain Contraband on Panama Prison
Authorities in Belgium have arrested a former top counter-narcotics official who they say is being...
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Record Cocaine Haul at Belgium Port Uncovers Police Corruption
A series of assassinations on Ecuador’s southern border with Peru have been attributed to gang...
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Contraband Turns to Bloodshed Between Ecuador and Peru
La Unión Tepito is a large criminal group indigenous to Mexico City, named after one of the...
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La Unión Tepito
Paraguayan authorities have announced historic sanctions against a major Brazilian bank in the...
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Brazilian Bank Slapped With Record Money Laundering Fine in Paraguay
A new report suggests the Chinese fishing fleet that mass trawled just off Ecuador’s Galápagos...
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Chinese Fishing Fleet Leaves Ecuador, Chile, Peru Scrambling to Respond
Despite having long played down the presence of the powerful Jalisco Cartel in Mexico City, a...
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Mexico City Braces for Impact from Jalisco Cartel Advance
A patrol ship in the Dutch Caribbean has caught a ton of cocaine in a rapid series of seizures,...
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Dutch Ship Makes Waves with Record Cocaine Seizures in Caribbean
Authorities in Panama’s northwestern province of Bocas del Toro have intercepted a string of...
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Panama’s Bocas del Toro Archipelago New Cocaine Seizure Hotspot
Theft of yucca cacti from indigenous communities in Mexico’s northwestern state of Baja...
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