Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) - InSight Crime
May 27, 2024 · The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) is a transnational criminal group that emerged from the Milenio Cartel following a series of killings, arrests, and internal fractures.
How El Salvador’s Crackdown Succeeded Where Others Failed
Dec 6, 2023 · Sources: Emergency decree enacted by El Salvador legislative assembly, March 26 2022; El Salvador legislative assembly; confidential police intelligence reports; interviews with El Salvador security officials; Revista Factum But while the crackdown’s impact has been transformative, the gangs are not finished in El Salvador. In fact, the government’s own data contradicts the Bukele ...
Tren de Aragua - InSight Crime
Jul 12, 2024 · Tren de Aragua is Venezuela’s most powerful homegrown criminal actor and the only Venezuelan gang that has successfully projected its power abroad. It has grown from a prison gang limited to the state of Aragua, to a transnational threat with a wide criminal portfolio.
How Bukele’s Government Overpowered Gangs: Major Findings
Dec 6, 2023 · In March 2022, the government of El Salvador launched one of the most relentless security crackdowns in its history in its latest attempt to debilitate the country’s three main gangs — the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), the Barrio 18 Revolucionarios (18R), …
A History of the Caribbean’s Most Powerful Drug Kingpins
Oct 13, 2023 · Caribbean countries have seized record amounts of cocaine in recent months, but the roots of the region’s persistence as a key corridor for the drug stretch back half a century.. Below, InSight Crime examines the legacies of some of the most influential Caribbean kingpins who helped to shape the region’s current drug trade dynamics.
Sinaloa Cartel - InSight Crime
Mar 15, 2024 · The Sinaloa Cartel, considered the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere, is a network of some of Mexico’s most important drug lords.
Tusi: The Pink Drug Cocktail That Tricked Latin America - InSight …
Jul 6, 2022 · A string of seizures across Latin America have revealed how “tusi,” a pink synthetic drug powder, is expanding into new countries and increasing its share of the region’s flourishing synthetic drug markets.
How Mexico’s Cartels Have Learned Military Tactics - InSight Crime
Sep 2, 2021 · As violence has continued to rise in Mexico year after year, criminal groups have adopted an increasingly militarized approach to their tactics, weaponry and training.
InSight Crime - Investigation and Analysis of Organized Crime
Nov 20, 2024 · InSight Crime Wins Colombia’s Simon Bolívar Award. InSight Crime has won the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize in the category of investigative journalism for the text publication “The Informants of Tibú: How the Colombian State Unleashed a Wave of Femicides.”
Mexico’s Jalisco Cartel – New Generation: From Extinction to …
Apr 24, 2023 · In less than a decade, the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation (CJNG) has transformed into one of the most prolific and violent drug trafficking organizations in the world. From a small group of deserters from the now-extinct Milenio Cartel, they evolved into a vast criminal network whose links extend through all of the Americas, as well as Europe and Asia.