GameChangers 2024: Global Cocaine Networks and Trump 2
Increased cocaine production delivered an extra $25 billion in earnings to transnational organized crime in 2024, ensuring greater criminal sophistication…
GameChangers 2024: Crime Cashes in on Migration Boom
As a growing number of people fled their homes across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024, migrant smuggling completed…
Earnings From Illegal Gold Hit Record High in Peru
The earnings from Illegally extracted gold in Peru have soared to record levels, fueling criminal organizations while the country debates…
Why Do Latin American Governments Keep Betting on States of Emergency?
Several Latin American countries have recently declared or prolonged states of emergency aimed at combating organized crime, even though the…
Criminals Set Their Sights on Peru’s Cultural Legacy
The looting of archaeological heritage and land trafficking in Peru is reaching alarming levels, and authorities lack the resources and…
Peru Extortion Scheme Shows How Private Schools Make Easy Targets
Extortionists are targeting upscale private schools in Peru’s third-largest city, underscoring how exclusive educational institutions have emerged as sources of…
Shining Path
The Shining Path or the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (Militarizado Partido Comunista de Peru – MPCP) is the last…
Venezuelan Women at Risk From Expanding Trafficking Rings
On November 29, 2022, the Monagas family heard from Lismar Monagas for the last time. Since then, the family has…
The Poisonous Mercury Trade
Mercury, employed by miners to extract gold from soil and sediment, is smuggled daily in bottles across Bolivia’s borders with…
Financial Vulnerability Fuels Predatory Crime in Peru
Widespread financial vulnerability is driving criminal competition in Peru, leading to skyrocketing cases of loan sharking and extortion. Cases of…