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US Drops Venezuela From Its Drugs Blacklist. Colombia Could Be Next | The InSight Take (opens the original)
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Is Venezuela no longer a major drug transit point? What does the US win from Alex Saab’s cooperation—and what does Venezuela lose? How do criminal groups prey on the people defending Latin America’s land and resources? Which is the latest country to sign on to Trump’s Shield of the Americas? This week’s top three organized crime stories in On the Radar. The White House removed Venezuela from its list of major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries for fiscal year 2027. US Preside
On The Radar | US Drops Venezuela From Its Drugs Blacklist. Colombia Could Be Next (opens the original)
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Is Venezuela no longer a major drug transit point? What does the US win from Alex Saab’s cooperation—and what does Venezuela lose? How do criminal groups prey on the people defending Latin America’s land and resources? Which is the latest country to sign on to Trump’s Shield of the Americas? This week’s top three organized crime stories in On the Radar. The White House removed Venezuela from its list of major drug transit or major illicit drug producing countries for fiscal year 2027. US Preside
On the Radar: Ecuador Boat Strikes, Peru Prisons, and Bolivia's Coca Surge (opens the original)
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What’s different about the US anti-drug strategy in Ecuador? Is Keiko Fujimori delivering on her tough-on-crime campaign promises in Peru? Can Bolivia’s new government rein in its coca boom? This week’s top three organized crime stories in On the Radar. The US Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) sank another Ecuadorian vessel on Monday, after its crew members were removed, alleging that it was a “floating refueling station” supporting drug trafficking on behalf of the Choneros, one of Ecuador’s largest
On the Radar: The End of Colombia's Total Peace? (opens the original)
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How is Colombia’s new president backing up his hardline campaign promises? Is Ecuador closing in on who ordered the most high-profile murder in its history, Fernando Villavicencio? And does a wave of high-profile captures and kills across the region signal a renewed regional bet on the “kingpin strategy”—and what comes next? This week’s top three organized crime stories in On the Radar. Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella’s government has formally ended negotiations with three criminal
Mapping Latin America’s Megaprisons (opens the original)
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In the three years since President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele opened his famous Terrorism Confinement Center (Centro de Confinamiento de Terrorismo – CECOT), leaders around Latin America have attempted to follow in his footsteps in hopes of replicating El Salvador’s success in repressing gangs. CECOT is one of the cornerstones of Bukele’s mano dura (iron fist) crackdown on organized crime in El Salvador. It is located in Tecoluca, about 70 kilometers east of San Salvador, and boasts a capacity
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