DRUG-TRAFFICKING Cocaine ‘mules’ arrested in Jujuy with capsules hidden in bodies 12-09-2024 00:54 Bolivian nationals were transporting 323 capsules of cocaine hidden on their person, reports authorities.
FEATURE Poverty, marginalisation, cocaine: Gangs find lucrative combo 30-03-2024 06:48 Argentina's economy is in intensive care. Financial stagnation, coupled with record inflation and the slashing of public spending have resulted in rising poverty and marginalisation. But in every crisis some see opportunity, and this time, it is crime groups. With drug-trafficking expanding in the barrios, analysts warn of new complex dynamics in the long run. by Josefina Salomon*, In.Visibles
CRIME & INSECURITY Rosario is always near 16-03-2024 06:25 As with so many other matters, Argentina’s leaders have not lived up to the challenge of efficiently combatting drug-trafficking. Yet it would be a mistake to confine the responsibility for Rosario’s bloody violence to politics. by Javier Calvo
CRIME & SECURITY Federal troops arrive in Rosario as drug violence, paralyses city 14-03-2024 21:53 After a week marked by a wave of violence, murder and drug-trafficking, 450 reinforcements arrive in troubled city, adding to the 2,000 members of the Coast Guard, Border Guard, Federal Police and Airport Security Force who are providing support.
CRIME & SECURITY Santa Fe governor orders Bukele-style tactics for narcos in Rosario 11-03-2024 12:53 Santa Fe Province Governor Maximiliano Pullaro is angering narco bosses with his Bukele-style approach to tackling drug violence in dangerous Rosario.
WAR ON DRUGS Petro: US anti-drug policies caused Latin American 'genocide' 01-03-2024 15:47 "We have lived through a genocide of a million Latin Americans in the last half-century," declares Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who points the finger at the United States.
INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO Mariano Cúneo Libarona: ‘The necessary and urgent right now, the debatable goes to the Omnibus bill’ 20-01-2024 06:55 Javier Milei’s justice minister on the president’s controversial decree, the ‘Omnibus Law’ and “a process of revolutionary change” in Argentina. by Jorge Fontevecchia
CRIME & SECURITY Rosario surpasses grim threshold of 150 homicides 06-07-2023 09:35 Four people killed in just three hours in crime-ridden Rosario; Argentina's second city, with a population of 1.3 million, has already suffered 151 homicides this year.
Drug-trafficking Uruguay finds cocaine in surfboards bound for Europe 14-06-2023 10:32 Uruguay's anti-drug brigade seize almost 50 kilos of cocaine hidden in surfboards in an international operation launched in May with police from Spain, Portugal and Italy. The drugs were bound for Europe.
CRIME & SECURITY Rosario: A city under threat from murderous drug gangs 29-03-2023 13:18 Rosario, Argentina's second city with a population of 1.3 million, has a homicide rate of 22 per 100,000 inhabitants – five times the national average. As a result of its privileged position as a major port city, drug-trafficking is having a devastating impact on the city’s poorest neighbourhoods and residents.
CRIME & SECURITY Government reinforces security forces in Rosario amid drug violence 07-03-2023 15:07 President Fernández boosts the number of federal security forces available to authorities in Rosario and says he will send a division of the Army to support efforts to overhaul and urbanise working-class neighbourhoods.
CRIME & SECURITY Rosario: a death a day in a city on edge from drug-trafficking 07-03-2023 09:37 Three out of every four homicides registered in the city of Rosario are premeditated, observes survey.
Anger in Rosario Homes of alleged drug-traffickers in Rosario vandalised after child's killing 07-03-2023 07:50 Residents of the working-class neighbourhood of Los Pumitas ransacked and vandalised homes of suspected drug-traffickers on Monday; Vigilante response to death of an 11-year-old child, who was killed in a violence shootout over weekend.
CRIME & SECURITY Shots fired, threats left at supermarket belonging to Messi's wife's family 02-03-2023 12:07 Narco violence in Rosario escalates as supermarket belonging to the family of Antonela Rocuzzo, the wife of Lionel Messi, was hit by a mafia-style attack in the early hours of Thursday morning.
FEATURE: DRUG-TRAFFICKING How drug smugglers infiltrated a global shipping giant 24-12-2022 09:40 As MSC grew into a dominant force in global trade, it also became a prime drug-trafficking conduit for Balkan gangs.
FEATURE: DRUG-TRAFFICKING Cocaine is flooding into Europe and it's terrorising cities 24-12-2022 08:40 Cocaine often hitches a ride from Latin America in the same ships that carry produce. The drug is swamping Europe, and some communities have been terrorised.
FEATURE: DRUG-TRAFFICKING The golden age of cocaine is happening right now 22-12-2022 14:09 Global fallout from Colombia's cocaine boom is showing up everywhere from the warehouses of Antwerp to coup plots in West Africa, bringing violence, corruption and big profits.