The Criminal Organization Lurking Beneath Paraguay’s Bank Collapse | The InSight Take
Paraguay is scrambling following the dissolution of Ueno bank and the arrest of the country’s now ex-president. In this episode…
Trafficking of Contraband Weight Loss Drugs From Paraguay to Brazil Spikes
Weight loss and diabetes medications are now one of the most smuggled contraband products in Brazil. Pharmaceuticals produced in neighboring…
Mapping Latin America’s Megaprisons
In the three years since President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele opened his famous Terrorism Confinement Center (Centro de Confinamiento…
Rotela Clan
Rotela Clan is a criminal group run by the Rotela family in Paraguay. It was originally specialized in the microtrafficking…
What a Drug Bust Involving a MrBeast Winner Says About LatAm’s Marijuana Trade
A private jet co-piloted by the winner of a MrBeast YouTube challenge was seized by Paraguayan authorities after more than…
InSight Crime’s 2025 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up
As the United States drags the drug war back in time, traffickers are leaping forward, creating new ways of disguising…
The Corruption Engine Behind Sebastián Marset’s Empire
On October 14, 2020, a Paraguayan congressman named Erico Galeano Segovia and a Paraguayan businessman named Hugo Manuel González Ramos…
On the Radar: Latin America Keeps Attacking Crime — But Is It Working
Our 2025 Homicide Round-Up is Now Live.What’s really driving the trends behind the numbers? Join our exclusive event on March…
What Marset’s Capture Tells Us About the Cocaine Business
The capture of Sebastián Marset, one of South America’s most wanted individuals, exemplifies why the takedown of major leaders should…