Crime
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BUSINESS AND FINANCE
Chile Hunts Crypto Fortunes as Organized Crime Tests State Power
Chile is learning that organized crime no longer hides only behind guns, ports, and cash. As police trace digital fortunes…
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Entertainment
Ecuadorean Film Tests Family Loyalty Against Quito’s Violent Criminal Underworld
Filmed across Quito in only 23 nights, Buenos Amigos turns a stolen backpack into a collision of teenage rebellion, organized…
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AMERICAS
Chile Writes Emergency Power Into Its War on Organized Crime
Chile’s proposed constitutional crackdown would let President José Antonio Kast impose sweeping emergency controls for months, restrict movement and communications,…
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AMERICAS
Peru Recruits FBI as Organized Crime Reinvents Its Survival Strategy
Peru’s FBI partnership promises technology, training, and sharper investigations. Yet, the country’s criminal networks have survived repeated crackdowns by fragmenting,…
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AMERICAS
Peru Still Walks Beneath Shining Path’s Long and Violent Shadow
Two arrests in Huánuco have reopened Peru’s darkest insurgent history, revealing how Shining Path survives not as the army it…
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ECONOMY
Latin America Battles Illegal Gold as Rivers Become Crime Scenes
From Peru’s Nanay basin to Yanomami lands and Colombia’s Pacific forests, illegal gold mining now finances armed groups, poisons Indigenous…
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AMERICAS
Chile Rewrites Security as Organized Crime Tests Its Old Certainties
Chile remains safer than much of Latin America, yet kidnappings, contract killings and transnational networks have altered its sense of…
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AMERICAS
Latin America Shadows Panama as Region Embraces Tougher Prison Politics
Panama's largest prison escape exposed more than broken fences at La Joyita. It revealed an exhausted state, a public primed…
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ANALYSIS
Venezuela Gang Strike Shows Crime Now Crosses Every Border Line
The killing of Tren de Aragua leader Niño Guerrero in Venezuela marks more than a battlefield headline. It exposes a…
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ANALYSIS
Peru’s Bus War Turns Election Into a Fight for Survival
Peru's crime wave has made Lima's buses moving targets, turning extortion, homicide, and political paralysis into the defining test for…
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