🇧🇴 | Rodrigo Paz will become Bolivia’s new president at a time when the country is mired in an economic crisis that could complicate efforts to combat crime. We explain three organized crime challenges he will face: https://bit.ly/47fy9U7

👉 Our co-director @jerrymcdermott explains to @dwnews how Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has made alliances with criminal actors to maintain his power, and how this relates to the US military deployment in the Caribbean.

🎙️ The price of gold topped $4,000 per ounce for the first time. In Colombia, gold mining is intimately linked to organized crime and corruption. Listen to our investigative podcast series, “The Shadow of El Dorado,” to learn more about this criminal economy: https://bit.ly/4nSKBk1

📊 Analysts at a CEPAL seminar called for increased economic analyses in public security agendas. But reforming incentives is challenging for politicians who need to show quick results to get elected. Read our coverage to learn more: https://bit.ly/43lUu1a

🇺🇸 ICE reported detaining more than 7,000 people in 26 special immigration enforcement operations. But while gangs were supposedly their priority targets, only 0.5% of those arrests had alleged gang ties. Learn more in our series on gangs and migration: https://bit.ly/4omo52H

🏴‍☠️ Fast boats, nighttime raids, and terrified crews. From the Caribbean to the Pacific, piracy is once again on the rise in Latin America, driven by internal crises and the absence of state control. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3KJVgi1

🇻🇪 | Military personnel in Amazonas, Venezuela, destroyed another illegal mining camp. Read our analysis on how the rise in gold prices is driving illegal mining and how the Venezuelan government is complicit in its illegal extraction: https://bit.ly/3KS9EoG

🎙️ While gold prices continue to break records, its illegal exploitation in Colombia remains steeped in blood. Listen to our podcast, “The Shadow of El Dorado,” which explores the power, greed, and crime behind the world's most coveted metal: https://bit.ly/3KwKBau

🇻🇪 | The military seized 30 anti-personnel mines in Táchira and Zulia, regions bordering Colombia. At the Venezuela Observatory, we explain why, although these findings are rare, they are not a new phenomenon in the country: https://bit.ly/4hoYsvQ

🎙️ Segovia’s informal miners accuse the government of favoring multinational corporations over local mining. So why did one of those corporations sue the government for $700 million? Find out in our Spanish language podcast, La sombra de El Dorado 👉 https://bit.ly/4pSEVaT

🇺🇸 The Trump administration claims to be targeting “vicious bloodythirsty criminals” in its immigration enforcement operations. Do those claims stand up? Explore the reality behind the politics in our latest investigation on gangs and migration in the US: https://bit.ly/46SZYmh

🇺🇾 🇧🇴 | After a narrow escape from authorities in Bolivia, Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset may have returned to the country, seemingly with the protection of Brazil’s PCC and corrupt authorities. Read about his escape here: https://bit.ly/42enKX4

👉 The missile strike by the Trump administration on suspected drug boats has implications for the wider regional nexus of politics, crime and state complicity. @jerrymcdermott explained on @dwnews.

#NewAnalysis | Will New Reform Help Mexico Address Money Laundering Challenges?

👉There are just days to go before our event Crime, Climate, and COP30. Donate now to gain access to this exclusive conversation, along with the chance to submit your questions to our regional environmental crime experts. bit.ly/3KAYGUk

📊 From prison overcrowding to enforcing drug prohibition, analysts say governments ignore the economic side of crime. But applying theory to gang dynamics is far from straightforward. Learn more in our coverage: https://bit.ly/43lUu1a

🇧🇴 | Bolivia's newly elected president, Rodrigo Paz, takes office on November 8 and will inherit an acute economic crisis that could complicate the state’s efforts to combat organized crime and create opportunities for criminal groups to further expand in the country: https://bit.ly/47fy9U7

🇧🇴 | Bolivia's newly elected president, Rodrigo Paz, takes office on November 8 and will inherit an acute economic crisis that could complicate the state’s efforts to combat organized crime and create opportunities for criminal groups to further expand in the country: https://bit.ly/47fy9U7

👉There are just days to go before our event Crime, Climate, and COP30. Donate now to gain access to this exclusive conversation, along with the chance to submit your questions to our regional environmental crime experts. bit.ly/3KAYGUk

🇻🇪 | The military seized 30 anti-personnel mines in Táchira and Zulia, regions bordering Colombia. At the Venezuela Observatory, we explain why, although these findings are rare, they are not a new phenomenon in the country: https://bit.ly/4hoYsvQ

🎙️ Segovia has been one of the most violent towns in Colombia for generations. Driving that violence is the lust for gold of armed groups, mafias, corrupt elites, and multinational corporations. Hear more in our podcast, La sombra de El Dorado.  https://bit.ly/4pObbMh

🇻🇪 | Military personnel in Amazonas, Venezuela, destroyed another illegal mining camp. Read our analysis on how the rise in gold prices is driving illegal mining and how the Venezuelan government is complicit in its illegal extraction: https://bit.ly/3KS9EoG

🇺🇸 ICE reported detaining more than 7,000 people in 26 special immigration enforcement operations. But while gangs were supposedly their priority targets, only 0.5% of those arrests had alleged gang ties. Learn more in our series on gangs and migration: https://bit.ly/4omo52H

📊 Experts at a recent seminar argued that economic considerations should play a larger role in anti-crime strategies. But can economic analysis curb criminal activity? Read our coverage to learn more: https://bit.ly/43lUu1a

🎙️ While gold prices continue to break records, its illegal exploitation in Colombia remains steeped in blood. Listen to our podcast, “The Shadow of El Dorado,” which explores the power, greed, and crime behind the world's most coveted metal: https://bit.ly/3KwKBau

👉 On @dwnews, InSight Crime’s co-director @jerrymcdermott breaks down the Venezuelan government’s ties to drug-trafficking and the implications for the US's strategy in the Caribbean.

🇺🇸 | Nayib Bukele wants MS13 leaders out of US custody and back home in El Salvador, allegedly to prevent details of his government's gang negotiations from going public. Marco Rubio assured Bukele that a deal was possible, according to reporting from the Washington Post: https://bit.ly/4orgTlJ

🇻🇪 | The US continues to exert pressure on Nicolás Maduro's regime. Sinking boats in the Caribbean and authorized CIA operations are Trump's strategies to allegedly attack the Cartel of the Suns. Read more in our profile. http://bit.ly/4oNOffE

🇺🇸 InSight Crime takes on one of the most hotly debated issues of the day - immigration and organized crime in the US. Our latest investigation dives deep into MS13, Tren de Aragua and ICE raids in the state of Tennessee. Check it out now: https://bit.ly/46SZYmh

👉 There are just days to go before our event Crime, Climate, and COP30. Donate now to gain access to this exclusive conversation, along with the chance to submit your questions to our regional environmental crime experts. https://bit.ly/3Jm08tg

🇧🇴 | Bolivia elected a new president, Rodrigo Paz, of the center-right Christian Democratic Party over the weekend. He will inherit an economic crisis that creates new opportunities for organized crime. We review the criminal challenges confronting the country: https://bit.ly/47fy9U7

🇺🇸 | An Ecuadorian man who survived a US missile strike and was later deported by the Trump administration is to face no charges at home. Washington alleged the vessel carried fentanyl, but most Caribbean routes move cocaine. Read more about the US strikes in the Caribbean: https://bit.ly/46mRpQg

🎙️ Segovia has been one of the most violent towns in Colombia for generations. Driving that violence is the lust for gold of armed groups, mafias, corrupt elites, and multinational corporations. Hear more in our podcast, La sombra de El Dorado.  https://bit.ly/4pObbMh

🇪🇨 | A soccer player for a team in the Ecuadorian coastal city of Portoviejo was shot and injured outside the team’s stadium. Numerous soccer players have been among the victims of Ecuador’s homicide explosion. More on Ecuador here: https://bit.ly/4hjU8xS

#NewAnalysis | Should Economic Thinking Influence LatAm Anti-Crime Policy? 

🇧🇷 | A recent operation by Brazil’s Federal Police uncovered a supposed aeronautics-parts firm importing components from the US and China to manufacture rifles for Rio de Janeiro’s gangs. Read our coverage to learn more about arms trafficking in Brazil: https://bit.ly/48XhSWD

🇻🇪 | The military seized 30 anti-personnel mines in Táchira and Zulia, regions bordering Colombia. At the Venezuela Observatory, we explain why, although these findings are rare, they are not a new phenomenon in the country: https://bit.ly/4hoYsvQ

🇺🇸 | The US president accused his Colombian counterpart of links to drug trafficking and threatened to cut aid to the country. What are the real implications of this for anti-drug cooperation? Read our analysis: http://bit.ly/3K4ohEU

🇺🇸 | Andrés Fernando Tufiño, an Ecuadorian who survived a US missile strike in the Caribbean, has walked free after being deported. The US claimed the boat carried fentanyl, yet most fentanyl bound for the US comes from Mexico. Read our analysis on US strikes in the region: https://bit.ly/46mRpQg

🇪🇨 | A soccer player and a judge were both attacked by hitmen in Ecuador’s coastal Manabí province. Originally home to the Choneros, the area is key territory for cocaine trafficking. Find out more about cocaine routes through Ecuador here: https://bit.ly/47eh1Ou

🇧🇴 | Rodrigo Paz will become Bolivia’s new president at a time when the country is mired in an economic crisis that could complicate efforts to combat crime. We explain three organized crime challenges he will face: https://bit.ly/47fy9U7

🇧🇷 | Brazil’s Federal Police and prosecutors executed 10 arrest warrants and 8 searches across three southeastern states, exposing a clandestine rifle factory disguised as an aerospace-parts firm. Read our coverage to learn more about arms trafficking in Brazil: https://bit.ly/48XhSWD

🇺🇸 | US authorities have accused Tren de Aragua, a Venezuela prison gang, of trafficking cocaine from Venezuela to the United States through the Caribbean Sea. But is this an accurate depiction of the group’s known activities? Read our analysis below.

🇺🇸 | The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised to hand informants over to Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele, according to reporting in the Washington Post. Our previous article explains why Bukele wants the informants back in El Salvador: https://bit.ly/4orgTlJ

🇻🇪 | Drug trafficking, illegal mining, and smuggling dominate Venezuela's criminal economies. Read our profile to learn how these networks have expanded in recent years and now operate under the protection or with complicity of authorities. http://bit.ly/3JeHIut

🧵 US forces bombed a narco submarine that President Trump said was bringing fentanyl to the United States, which almost certainly is incorrect. Here’s what we know about subs 👇

🇺🇸 | Tensions between the US and Colombia escalated after Trump accused Petro of links to drug trafficking. The US president is also threatening to cut aid to Colombia, which could further hamper the fight against organised crime: http://bit.ly/3K4ohEU

#NewAnalysis | Three Crime Challenges Facing Bolivia’s New President: https://bit.ly/47fy9U7

📆 Organized crime is a major driver of the deforestation that fuels climate change, but absent from the COP30 climate summit agenda. Join InSight Crime investigators and regional experts for an exclusive panel discussion on why it should be a talking point for the summit: bit.ly/3KAYGUk

Last week, the US bombed two suspected drug vessels in the Caribbean. The second strike left survivors, according to @Reuters. Find out more about what’s behind these bombings by checking out our coverage of organized crime in Venezuela: https://bit.ly/3WJ1ZeN