Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Corridor of Violence: the Guatemala – Honduras Border

...ers, social workers, doctors and public health officials. Guatemala and Honduras should learn from regional experiences, such as the border development programs in the process of being implemented in colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Honduras, where overall levels of violence are higher and institutional capacity weaker, is in particularly dire need of assistance. Donors – especially the U.S. – should put t...

Posted on 04 Jun 2014

Private Sector

Illicit Cigarettes: crime at your corner store

...iness of smuggling cigarettes to North Africa – Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia smoke 44% of Africa's cigarettes and host significant black markets". This month, an expose found that the colombian FARC was laundering drug proceeds through a secondary business in contraband cigarettes, to fund their longstanding terrorist insurgency. The IRA in Ireland, and Lebanon's Hezbollah also have notori...

Posted on 04 Apr 2014

Crime Terror Nexus

GIN Interview: Louise Shelley, founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center

... the resources or attention it needs in the US, partly because the bureaucratic structures are so stove-piped. We are seeing much more attention on the problem of TOC outside the US. For example, the colombian government is pressing the UN and Organization of American States (OAS) to recognize these linkages. This is not an agenda being driven by developed countries but rather by the developing world. ...

Posted on 09 Mar 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

A sting in the tale

... to receive the drug off the coast of Guinea-Bissau and to stash it in storage houses there pending its eventual shipment to the United States, where it would be sold for the financial benefit of the colombian insurgent criminal group, the FARC.  Na Tchuto further agreed that a portion of the cocaine would be used to pay Guinea-Bissau government officials for providing safe passage for the cocaine throug...

Posted on 06 Oct 2013

Development Dialogue

The paradox of plenty: mineral trafficking, conflict and crime

...Africa.  But perhaps it is now time to extend that rule into Latin America.  An investigation by Bloomberg broke a story that showed that Cerro Tigre, or Tiger Hill, the only known tungsten mine in colombia is owned and operated by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and that a number of multinational companies, including BMW, Volkswagen, Ferrari, Porsche, Siemens, Apple, and Samsung had...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Crime & Conflict

Fighting Drugs and Building Peace

...ain. A frequently overlooked feature of the fi ght against drugs is the linkages between the production of illegal narcotics and the political dynamics in post-confl ict countries. Afghanistan and colombia are cases in point. Both countries remind us of the fact that the world map of opium and cocaine production is not only determined by agricultural factors but by the “comparative advantages in the ...

Posted on 23 Mar 2007
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