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- Aug 25, 2026
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The InSight Take: Organized Crime Adopts the Latest Technologies in the Drone-IED Arms Race (opens the original)
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Organized crime groups across Latin America are weaponizing commercial drones, pairing them with IEDs to attack rivals, security forces, and civilians. From CJNG’s drone unit in Mexico to gang warfare in Rio’s favelas and ELN surveillance drones in Colombia, InSight Crime co-director Jeremy McDermott joins Deborah Bonello to ask whether governments can actually keep pace with the threat. Deborah: [00:00:00] So on August 17th, the US and Mexico signed what they’re calling a declaration of intent,
The InSight Take: The Shield of the Americas Grows, But Does it Have a Strategy? (opens the original)
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Colombia just became the 19th member of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition—better known as Shield of the Americas—days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew to Panama to declare its new motto: “We do bad things to bad people.” On this week’s InSight Take, Managing Editor Deborah Bonello and Co-director Jeremy McDermott unpack what this fast-growing coalition actually commits its members to, five months after its founding and still without an approved operational plan. With lethal strikes
The InSight Take: Abelardo de la Espriella Inherits Colombia's Fractured Criminal Landscape (opens the original)
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Colombia’s new president faces one of the most complicated criminal landscapes in the world. In this week’s InSight Take, Co-Director Jeremy McDermott and Senior Colombia Analyst Sara Garcia unpack what Abelardo de la Espriella inherits: powerful armed groups like the Gaitanistas and the ELN, record cocaine production, and booming illegal gold mining. They weigh Washington’s likely support, whether de la Espriella can match the Uribe-era security gains, and the human rights risks of a harder mil
Can A New President's Hard-Line Approach Stop the Spread of Coca in Colombia? (opens the original)
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The United Nations has finally published its data on coca cultivation in Colombia in 2024, as drug crop plantations expanded, yet concentrated in certain territories, offering the incoming president opportunities as he vows to restart eradication on an industrial scale. The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) and the Colombian government registered 261,000 hectares of coca in 2024, representing a 3.5% increase compared to 2023. The report was published 18 months later than expected d
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