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Welcome to InSight Crime’s Criminal GameChangers 2022, where we highlight the most important trends in organized crime in the Americas. The year saw…
The ongoing legalization of marijuana at the state level in the United States has forced organized crime groups in Mexico…
In 2010, the RAND Corporation said it was “noncontroversial” to declare that at least 50 percent of the marijuana consumed…
In Mexico’s Golden Triangle, where the northwest states of Chihuahua, Durango, and Sinaloa converge to form the country’s epicenter of…
Local drug sales in Sinaloa’s capital city may be a small-time business. Even so, it’s controlled by one of the…
Marijuana has long been one of the most profitable illicit crops in various parts of rural Mexico, and one of…
Seizures of pink cocaine, or “tusi,” in Spain show how this synthetic drug has moved from primarily being used in…
Authorities in the United States have sanctioned a Mexican criminal group for trafficking illicit fentanyl into the country, but the…
Despite being locked in fierce competition over control of a wide array of criminal economies, Mexico’s two most powerful organized…
While addicted to opioids, 35-year-old Sherman Oaks native Matt Meakin once lived in Skid Row, a permanent, decades-old, sprawling homeless…