Tren de Aragua Brand Spurs Criminal Imposters Outside Venezuela
A string of arrests across the Andes has targeted extortionists posing as members of the Tren de Aragua, showing how…
Q&A: Latin American Children With Parents in Prison Get No Support
Despite wide-ranging evidence of the consequences of prison overcrowding, including widespread gang recruitment and extensive human rights abuses, Latin America…
Chile Hands New Powers to Police as Security Deteriorates
Chile has given police greater leeway to use force against criminal suspects, but this hasty response to a wave of…
Can India’s lithium reserves secure its energy independence?
Author: Monika Chaudhary, IIHMR University In February 2023, India’s government announced that the Geological Survey of India found around 5.9…
InSight Crime’s Cocaine Seizure Round-Up 2022
Cocaine seizure figures from Latin America in 2022 suggest traffickers are varying their routes to avoid detection, as authorities get…
InSight Crime’s 2022 Homicide Round-Up
Countries across Latin America and the Caribbean continued to experience high murder rates in 2022, as cocaine production reached new…
Chile’s Copper Industry Under Siege as Robbers Attack Ports and Trains
Train robberies in the desert, cargo containers hijacked from a massive port, and tons of cathodes heading to China —…