Global Organized Crime Index, Resilience Fund

Thinking globally, acting locally: The criminality–resilience nexus

...cording to the Index, countries with high levels of international cooperation did not necessarily experience lower levels of criminality. In fact, the countries with the worst criminal market scores, Mexico (8.00), Colombia (7.20) and Nigeria (7.05) – important links in the global chain of illicit flows – all scored high for international cooperation. The ratification of international treaties is im...

Posted on 13 May 2022

Author(s): Yvon Dandurand

Crime & Conflict, Crime Terror Nexus, Drug Policy, Extortion in Central America, Global Strategy, Gold Watch, MMFU, Private Sector, Protecting Politics, AMA-Obs, APA-Obs, AR-Obs, CAM-Obs, CSA-Obs, ESA-Obs, EUR-Obs, HT-Obs, NAS-Obs, SA-Obs, SEE-Obs, UKR-Obs, WEA-Obs

Deep dive: The podcast

Posted on 11 May 2022

Author(s): Jack Meegan-Vickers

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

At a crossroads of crime

Posted on 29 Apr 2022

Author(s): Josefina Salomón

Global Organized Crime Index

A drop in the ocean? Organized crime dynamics in Pacific Island countries

... organized crime are manifesting in Pacific Island countries. For example, the dynamics of how illicit drugs are moved across the Pacific by crime syndicates from Asia as well as drug cartels from Mexico and South America to lucrative markets in Australia and New Zealand have changed. Increased connectivity and the effects of criminal deportees who have been returned to Pacific Island countries have ...

Posted on 22 Apr 2022

Author(s): Tess Newton Cain

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, AR-Obs

Clan del Golfo: The fall of ‘Otoniel’

... became such that other organized criminal groups paid Clan del Golfo to traffic their cocaine. Clan del Golfo cultivated connections with other organized criminal groups across the world – from Mexico's Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel, to Italian mafia groups including the Calabrese mafia, Cosa Nostra and ‘Ndrangheta, not forgetting the Balkan networks. Otoniel, along with hi...

Posted on 04 Apr 2022

Author(s): Jack Meegan-Vickers

UN-TOC Watch

War, walkouts and withdrawals

...mme of side events took place. The most notable resolution was a Mexican-drafted text calling on greater international focus on the links between illicit trafficking of drugs and firearms, which, for Mexico and other countries, is key in terms of understanding and responding to increases in gang violence and homicide rates. The resolution received resistance from some countries – led by Iran – wh...

Posted on 24 Mar 2022

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Global Organized Crime Index

A rocky road

... context shows how patterns of violence are an indicator of whether drug trafficking is divided between competing drug cartels and if the police are effective in containing the trade. In Colombia and Mexico, violence is more frequent and visible when drug cartels vie over drug routes, with homicides and violent showdowns between cartels and police occurring in densely populated areas. Levels of violence...

Posted on 28 Feb 2022

Author(s): Dr Erica Marat