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Bolivia Dealing with Contraband Surge During Pandemic
Authorities in Bolivia this month have seized several large contraband...
Bolivia’s New President Faces Complex Drug Scenario
The newly sworn-in president of Bolivia, Luis Arce, will face a number of...
Business As Usual? Cocaine Seizures On the Rise At Bolivia-Brazil Border
Authorities claim that rising cocaine seizures along the Bolivia-Brazil border...
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Human Smugglers Continue to Cash In on Haitian Migrants
A sophisticated human smuggling ring that illegally moved migrants from Haiti across a number of Latin American countries into Chile shows that the Caribbean...
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Corruption and Graft Afflict Latin America’s Pandemic Response
As Latin America emerges as the new global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, corruption has proliferated, with politicians and middlemen quick to line their...
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Chile Sees Drug Trafficking as Most Severe National Security Threat: Survey
While Chile has one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America and has managed to avoid major criminal groups developing there, a new survey has shown that...
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Tensions Rise in Bolivia’s Chapare as Government Escalates Anti-Drug Operations
Officials from Bolivia's interim government have stepped up drug trafficking operations over the last six months, but a focus on coca-producing communities in...
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Ucayali, Peru’s Drug Trafficking Gateway to Bolivia and Brazil
The coronavirus pandemic has halted trafficking in Peru and sent cocaine prices plummeting, but drug seizures continue in the border department of Ucayali, a...
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Bolivia Investigations Target Members of Evo Morales’ MAS Party
Since Bolivia’s botched elections in October 2019, numerous high-standing politicians and law enforcement officials associated with the Movement to Socialism...
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Bolivia Struggles to Help Its Human Trafficking Victims
An investigation in Bolivia has found that human trafficking goes largely unchecked throughout the country, highlighting the government’s need to address...
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InSight Crime’s 2019 Homicide Round-Up
Unrest gripped much of Latin America and the Caribbean throughout 2019. From record violence in Mexico that recalled the darkest days of the drug war,...
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GameChangers 2019: 10 Predictions for Organized Crime in 2020
The year was one of political tumult, fed in no small part by organized crime and its favored weapon: corruption. The region appeared to take a step backwards...