Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) - InSight Crime
2024年5月27日 · The CJNG is headed by alias "El Mencho," a feared but mysterious leader. The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) is a transnational criminal group that emerged from the Milenio Cartel following a series of killings, arrests, and internal fractures. It is known for its aggressive use of violence and its ...
How El Salvador’s Crackdown Succeeded Where Others Failed
2023年12月6日 · But while the crackdown’s impact has been transformative, the gangs are not finished in El Salvador. In fact, the government’s own data contradicts the Bukele administration’s narrative that the gangs have been completely defeated. The government claims to have arrested 52,541 members of the MS13, 13,682 members of the Barrio 18 Sureños ...
Tren de Aragua - InSight Crime
2024年7月12日 · Tren de Aragua is Venezuela’s most powerful homegrown criminal actor and the only Venezuelan gang that has successfully projected its power abroad. It has grown from a prison gang limited to the state of Aragua, to a transnational threat with a wide criminal portfolio. This transnational expansion came on the backs of Venezuelan migrants ...
How Bukele’s Government Overpowered Gangs: Major Findings
2023年12月6日 · How Bukele’s Government Overpowered Gangs: Summary & Major Findings. In March 2022, the government of El Salvador launched one of the most relentless security crackdowns in its history in its latest attempt to debilitate the country’s three main gangs — the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13), the Barrio 18 Revolucionarios (18R), and the Barrio ...
Sinaloa Cartel - InSight Crime
2024年3月15日 · Sinaloa Cartel. by InSight Crime 15 Mar 2024. The Sinaloa Cartel, considered the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere, is a network of some of Mexico’s most important drug lords. Members work together to …
How Mexico’s Cartels Have Learned Military Tactics - InSight Crime
2021年9月2日 · How Mexico’s Cartels Have Learned Military Tactics. by Chris Dalby 2 Sep 2021. A member of the Jalisco Cartel walks past a narco-tank in a still from a video put out by the cartel. As violence has continued to rise in Mexico year after year, criminal groups have adopted an increasingly militarized approach to their tactics, weaponry and training.
A History of the Caribbean’s Most Powerful Drug Kingpins
2023年10月13日 · Figueroa started as a low-level retail drug seller in Puerto Rico but joined the ranks of established drug traffickers in the early 1990s. He was jailed in 1993 for 209 years for murder but escaped in 1999. Between 2005 and 2010, the organization led by Figueroa and others trafficked and distributed over 10 metric tons of cocaine and heroin.
20 Years After Pablo: The Evolution of Colombia’s Drug Trade
2023年4月24日 · Twenty years ago, on December 2, 1993, Pablo Escobar, the pioneer of Colombia’s cocaine trade, was killed on a rooftop in his native Medellin by police. His death signaled the end of one era of drug trafficking and the birth of another, as the drug trade continued apace, with Medellin still at its heart. While the mystique surrounding Escobar ...
Making Synthetic Drugs: A Primer* - InSight Crime
2023年5月8日 · Making Synthetic Drugs: A Primer*. by Sara Garcia 8 May 2023. The process of making synthetic drugs involves various steps, but it must include a key ingredient called a precursor. For methamphetamine, these precursors are 1-phenyl-2-propanone (P2P) and methylamine; for fentanyl, these are 4-anilino-N-phenethylpiperidine (ANPP) and norfentanyl ...
Tusi: The Pink Drug Cocktail That Tricked Latin America - InSight …
2022年7月6日 · A string of seizures across Latin America have revealed how “tusi,” a pink synthetic drug powder, is expanding into new countries and increasing its share of the region’s flourishing synthetic drug markets. In June, tusi consumption was reportedly booming in the nightclubs of Barquisimeto, a city in western Venezuela, while tusi refining ...