Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Arrested development in northern Central America

...nting programmes and policies with local stakeholders. For example, President Joe Biden's administration announced a project to bring economic investment to Central America and, in collaboration with Mexico, to create the programme Sembrando Oportunidades (sowing opportunities) for economic development in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras aimed at supporting at-risk and unemployed youth. Initiative...

Posted on 09 Feb 2022

Author(s): Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Part of the landscape

...s: South America scores higher than the global average of 4.88 in the Organized Crime Index's 'non-state actor' resilience indicator, with a regional score of 5.96. Central American countries such as Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama also rank higher than the global average in the same indicator. These civil society groups need to be supported, protected and encouraged, particularly when no one e...

Posted on 28 Jan 2022

Author(s): Josefina Salomón

Drug Policy, UN-TOC Watch

Thinking inside the box

... the society and state to forge an effective partnership in tackling the challenges of organized crimes. Khosa’s call for civil society engagement was subsequently supported by the Ambassador of Mexico and the delegation of Canada in ensuing discussions, showing some member state support for this position. Another civil society intervention came from John Collins, Director of Academic Engagement...

Posted on 03 Nov 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

#GIDisappearances, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

No truth without data

...Since Mexico launched its 'war on drugs' in 2006, nearly 39 000 unidentified bodies have been found in the country. Although the government has made efforts to identify them, relatives of missing people and other...

Posted on 27 Sep 2021

Author(s): Norma Sánchez

#GIDisappearances, Resilience Fund

A guide to investigating disappearances related to organized crime

A guide to investigating disappearances related to organized crime

...Vietnamese children disappear from their homes and find themselves abandoned for days at an airport in France. Mass graves in Mexico are uncovered bearing the remains of people who had gone missing from their families. Bodies float to the surface of Colombia’s Rio Cauca. Trafficked Ugandan teenage girls are rescued in Kenya, wit...

Posted on 25 Aug 2021

Author(s): Radha Barooah

#GIDisappearances, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Partners in crime

...bribes. Sandoval’s top law enforcement official, Edgar Veytia, is currently imprisoned in the United States after pleading guilty to drug trafficking charges. General Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda, Mexico’s secretary of defence between 2012 and 2018, has also been accused of involvement in drug trafficking in connection with Nayarit. On 15 October 2020, Cienfuegos was detained in Los Angeles on char...

Posted on 21 Jun 2021

Author(s): Nathaniel Morris