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Eight suspected cocaine smugglers have been arrested and nearly R19-million worth of assets were seized in the joint operation.

From the blog of Luciano Mondino at The Times of Israel

The most extensive database on organized crime in the AmericasBrazil’s cocaine and marijuana markets were not immune to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but a recent report shows how drug traffickers quickly adapted to the new reality to keep their products flowing.A July report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Latin America is perhaps the region with the most significant number of countries exhibiting outstanding economic growth yearly.

A Brazilian former prison gang is threatening to turn its neighbour into a narcostate and its deadly tentacles extend much further

Rio de Janeiro, May 24 (EFE).- A police raid targeting alleged drug traffickers linked to a powerful criminal gang left at least 21 dead in this southeastern Brazilian metropolis on Tuesday, a year after a similar law-enforcement operation resulted in 28 deaths. Military Police officers entered the Penha favela (shantytown) complex in northern Rio de …

The seizure by Brazilian police of 136 kilos of cocaine on a docked ship in the port of Rio Grande, state of Rio Grande do Sul, clearly indicates the existence of an international drug trafficking route, in the south of the country and neighboring Uruguay.

Illegal miners operating insider the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon are coercing Indigenous girls as young as 11 into sex work, as well as inflicting violence and disease on the wider population, a recent investigation says. “Many miners are enticing teenage girls and women in the Yanomami communities. There are 11-, 12- and […]

When the cruise ship MSC Seaside made her maiden call in Valencia, Spain last week, ten of her passe...

A tale of cop collusion, a ‘most wanted’ fugitive hiding in South Africa, a double murder in Brazil, and cocaine bound for Durban.