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Lucía lives in Peru, in one of more than 50 indigenous communities along the Putumayo, an Amazonian river that marks the border between Peru and Colombia. She has a banana plantation on the Colombian side of the river, which she has not visited in months out of fear of Los Sinaloa, an armed group of […]

According to CPJ's 2022 Impunity Index, in nearly 80% of the 263 cases of journalists murdered in retaliation for their work globally over the past decade, the perpetrators have faced no punishment. The ten worst countries for impunity are Somalia, Syria, South Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Mexico, Philippines, Myanmar, Brazil, and Pakistan.

According to a report from Paraguays Congressional Bicameral Investigative Committee (CBI) released Tuesday, the country has become a logistic corridor for international crime, CBI Chairman Senator Jorge Querey told reporters in Asunción.

The Rio de Janeiro Civil Police’s arrest of five Colombians this summer for loan sharking — illegal loans at exorbitant interest rates — using narcotrafficking money drew the attention of Brazil’s security sector, because reports of this practice by narcotraffickers were so far unheard of, Police said.

Expanding links between smugglers and environmental criminals are behind the increase in violent crime

The deaths of journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous rights defender Bruno Pereira in June this year exposed an interlocking web of crime involving drug trafficking, money laundering, and illegal fishing deep in the Brazilian Amazon. This sprawling criminal network stretches throughout the rainforest and beyond, and is responsible for soaring deforestation rates and increasing violence […]

In an operation in Bella vista Norte, Amambay department, the Paraguayan National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) destroyed more than 16 tons of marijuana. Agents found the drugs in a rural establishment of some 5 hectares that housed several narco-camps with marijuana crops, where they also seized 1.5 tons of the drug in the drying process.

A Rio de Janeiro police raid in Alemao favelas resulted in the death of at least 18 people on Thursday, according to the spokesperson for the state's military police.

Illegal businesses form an interlocking web in the Brazilian remote region where Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira were killed, threatening Indigenous communities and local ecology

Two of the Amazon rainforest's staunchest advocates, Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, are believed to have been killed in one of its remotest corners.