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Weekly InSight | 27 September 2013

This Week's Analysis

US Pushes Honduras to Crack Down on Cachiros The Honduras government, working closely with US authorities, has cracked down on one of Honduras' largest drug transport organizations, the Cachiros, seizing properties and businesses and in the process painting a picture of a group whose reach may extend to Honduras' political and possibly its financial elite. Mexico Corporations Complain to President of Extortion Threat Some of Mexico's largest corporations have issued complaints to the president about the constant threat of extortion of public infrastructure projects, illustrating how this profitable illicit activity now permeates the Mexican economy at almost every level. El Salvador Freight Networks Used to Move Cocaine Cocaine Brokers Revealed The Current State of Mexico's Many Drug Cartels

News

$800m Cachiros Seizure 'End of Phase One': Honduras Police Guatemala Breaks Up Car Theft Ring Linked to Texis Cartel Peru Now World's Biggest Coca Cultivator: UN Killings by Off Duty Sao Paulo Police Hits 10 Year High DEA 'Has Proof' of Suriname President's Ties to Drug Lord Venezuela Soldiers Arrested For 'Biggest Ever' French Drug Bust More News

Multimedia

InSight Crime map of areas of Jamaica most affected by a rise in murders, which police say is gang-related. US Treasury chart showingCachirosorganizational structure.

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