By: Insight Crime March 21, 2023 Honduran and Guatemalan authorities are eradicating record amounts of coca plants, further evidence of the coca’s expansion beyond the traditional coca-growing region of the…
Category: CENTRAL AMERICA NEWS AND POLITICS
EU LAUNCHES CARIBBEAN DIGITAL ALLIANCE
By: Kimberly Ramkhalawan March 14, 2023 kramkhalawan@caribmagplus.com Some €145m from Team Europe, including €50m from the EU budget has been put forward to boost digital cooperation between the European Union-Latin…
Panama Achieves 50% Ocean Protection with Newly Expanded Banco Volcán Marine Protected Area
March 10, 2023 On March 2, 2023, during the opening ceremony of the 2023 Our Ocean Conference, Laurentino Cortizo, President of Panama, and Milciades Concepción, Minister of Environment, signed the decree to substantially…
Brutal but Futile: Venezuela’s Anti-Gang ‘Mega-Operations’
By: Insight Crime March 7, 2023 For three days in July 2021, the Caracas neighborhood of Cota 905 became an urban warzone. Just blocks away from Venezuela’s Miraflores presidential palace,…
Central America: Lessons Learned
By: Nic Wirtz March 7, 2023 Central America forms new, integrated markets to fuel the region’s bounce-back. Central American institutions entered 2023 determined to learn from the difficult pandemic period—taking…
Peace Leaders in Putumayo, Colombia Bet Their Lives on Coca Crop Substitution
By: Alicia Florez, Insight Crime March 2023 Community leaders in Colombia’s Putumayo department have historically supported coca substitution programs as part of peace processes aimed at resolving the country’s long-running…
Central America in all time low on Corruption index!
By: Staff Writer February 24, 2023 Central American countries are at an all-time low on the Corruption index as violence fuelled by drug trafficking choke them out day by day.…
Venezuela’s Organized Crime Top 10 for 2023
By: Insight Crime February 21, 2023 Venezuela’s organized crime groups and networks have evolved rapidly over the last decade, exploiting social and political crises that have wracked the country while…
Is Nayib Bukele’s ‘Iron Fist’ in El Salvador Working?
By: InsightCrime February 14, 2023 After the influential and well-sourced publication El Faro declared that El Salvador’s controversial President Nayib Bukele had “disarticulate(d)” the country’s gangs, is it time to…
Statement of the OAS General Secretariat on the Arrival of 222 Nicaraguan Political Prisoners in the United States
February 10, 2023 The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) today welcomes the arrival in the United States as refugees of 222 former Nicaraguan political prisoners. Their…
Upcoming Guatemala elections are already controversial
By: Staff Writer February 3, 2023 The Guatemalan elections will be held on June 25, 2023 to elect the president and vice president, all 160 seats of the Congress, all…
OAS Deploys Electoral Cooperation Technical Team to Guatemala
February 3, 2023 Responding to a request from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Guatemala, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), through the Department for Electoral…