latin america
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A new report from the US Congressional Research Service details the importance of trade-based money laundering for criminal networks in Latin America and outlines some of the ways the region’s governments are attempting to combat illicit financial flows… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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The latest report by the International Narcotics Control Board illustrates the region-wide correlation between developments in drug trafficking, drug use and criminal violence in Latin America… This piece was co-written with James Bargent. Read it in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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Congress is considering a proposal meant to help the Department of Justice pursue a wider range of players in the transnational drug trade, potentially foreshadowing an increase in extraditions and prosecutions of drug traffickers based abroad… Read this piece in its entirety at InSight Crime.
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A first-of-its-kind study from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says that high crime rates in Latin America and the Caribbean have taken a “significant” socioeconomic toll on the region and “constitute a severe threat to economic development.” Additionally, the organization notes that the costs of crime “tend to be concentrated on the most vulnerable population
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During his time as New York City major, Rudy Giuliani was known above all as a fierce partisan of “law and order.” Since he left office in 2001, he has leveraged that reputation into a lucrative private-sector consulting career and now heads Giuliani Partners…But many question the extension of Giuliani’s “zero-tolerance” approach to public safety in Latin America.
Mike LaSusa 