Insight into Organized Crime in the Americas

Weekly InSight | 14 February 2014

This Week's Analysis

How Gold Trade Fuels Modern-Day Slavery in Peru Slave-like conditions, frequent accidents, disease and sexual exploitation are a normal part of the illegal gold mining trade in Peru, a gripping report by a watchdog group reveals. Michoacan, Guerrero and Mexico's Mixed Response to Vigilantes The reach of southwestern Mexico's self-defense militias has swelled in recent weeks, but while in some parts of the country they have been aided by federal forces, in others they have been blocked, raising questions as to what lies behind this divergent approach. How Agricultural Price Shocks Affect Mexico's Drug Trade Mexico's Oil Reform May Help Organized Crime Will Venezuela’s Citizen Security Reform Continue Despite Re-militarization?

News

Authorities Suspect Mass Complicity of Peru Exporters in Illegal Gold Mining Meth Sting Shows Role of LatAm Groups in Australia Drug Trade Paraguay Cocaine Lab Bust Latest Example of Criminal Migration Armed Groups Make Valle del Cauca Colombia's Violence Capital Guatemala Massacre Points to Post-Zetas Scramble Mexico Vigilantes Financed by US Residents Amid Renewed Violence More News

Multimedia

Interactive map showing where illegal groups pose the greatest risk ofviolence in Colombia's upcoming elections. Sites ofmassacres in Guatemala's Peten province in 2011 and 2014.