Brazil Chief Prosecutor Applauds Multilateral Anti-Corruption Cooperation
Brazil's chief prosecutor highlighted the importance of international cooperation in ongoing probes of the biggest corruption cases in the country's history. But while multilateral exchanges of...
View ArticleToo Little Too Late? Bolivia, Brazil to Boost Efforts Against Criminal Migration
Authorities in Bolivia and Brazil will enter into a bilateral agreement later this month aimed at combating the expansion of Brazilian criminal groups into Bolivia, but the move might prove to be a...
View ArticleWhy Police Reforms Rarely Succeed: Lessons From Latin America
As discussions about police reform abound throughout the Americas, Yanilda González, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, examines the implications of Latin America's experience with...
View ArticleWhat LatAm Cities Can Learn From the Failures of Brazil's UPP Policing Model
Community policing has become the go-to security strategy in the Americas. But as the case of the Rio de Janeiro's "pacification" policing experiment shows, its impact has been limited and short-lived.
View ArticleHow Odebrecht Profited From Corrupting LatAm Political Elites
On December 21, 2016, the US Department of Justice and Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht reached a record-setting anti-corruption settlement that revealed Odebrecht spent hundreds of...
View ArticleBrazil Military Deployment in Rio Shows Past Failures of Militarization
Brazil's defense minister has announced a new phase of security operations in Rio de Janeiro that will involve a massive military deployment, a strategy often used throughout Latin America that has...
View ArticleLatin America Again Ranks as World's Least Secure Region: Report
For the eighth year in a row, an annual report from the Gallup polling organization has ranked Latin America as the least secure region in the world, underscoring the persistence of regional security...
View ArticleWeekly InSight: Drugs and Security, Latin America's Lessons for the World
In our August 3 Facebook Live session, Senior Editor Mike LaSusa spoke with Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown about the lessons Latin America has learned in its decades-long fight...
View ArticleLife Imitates Art: ‘City of God’ Actor Accused of Killing Rio Cop
Fifteen years after the release of one of Brazil's most famous movies, a man who played a drug trafficker in the film has been accused of becoming a real-life gang boss, illustrating how closely the...
View ArticleRio de Janeiro Crime Map Could Help Target 'Hot Spots'
Authorities in Rio de Janeiro have mapped out areas of Brazil's second-biggest city that are under the control of criminal organizations, potentially enabling them to better target crime control...
View ArticleRising Violence Across Brazil Hits North Especially Hard
New figures show that violence is rising across Brazil. But the country's deteriorating security situation has hit the north particularly hard, providing a snapshot of factors driving high murder rates...
View ArticleReport Breaks Down Paraguay to Brazil Cigarette Smuggling Trail
A new investigation into the cigarette smuggling trail between Paraguay and Brazil lays out the inner workings of a criminal economy that generates huge profits for everyone from sophisticated...
View ArticleBrazil's PCC Planning Anniversary Attacks on Govt Officials: Report
A new report says that Brazil's largest and most powerful criminal organization is planning a spate of attacks against government officials to mark the anniversary of the group's founding, but...
View ArticleBrazil Crime Boss Sold 'Tons' of Drugs from Paraguay Prison
Brazil authorities have reportedly dismantled an international drug trafficking network that purchased tons of drugs from a Brazilian crime boss jailed in Paraguay, in the latest illustration of how...
View ArticleApparent Extrajudicial Execution in Mexico Adds to the Growing List
A video of what appears to be a series of extrajudicial killings by a Mexican police officer in the border city of Reynosa is yet another example of how a combination of frustration with inefficient...
View ArticleWas Brazil's Workers' Party a 'Criminal Organization'? (And Why It Matters)
Brazil's chief prosecutor charged former presidents Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva and Dilma Rousseff with running a "criminal organization," marking a new attempt by judicial officials to prove that the...
View ArticleNew Charges Provide Further Evidence of Crime Group Run by Brazil Elites
Brazil's top prosecutor has charged several former and current senators with receiving bribes and being part of a "criminal organization," offering further evidence suggesting that Brazil's elites...
View ArticleBrazil Police Map Corruption 'Gang,' Arrows Point to President Temer
Brazil's federal police have created a diagram to illustrate their conception of the leadership structure of a "gang" of politicians accused of involvement in a massive graft scheme. And they put the...
View ArticleBrazil President Faces New Criminal Charges Related to Graft Scheme
The first sitting president in the history of Brazil to face criminal charges has been indicted once again, this time for allegedly obstructing justice and leading a criminal organization. Congress...
View ArticleWeekly InSight: An Open Discussion on Crime and Corruption in Latin America
In our September 21 Facebook Live Session, Co-director Steven Dudley and Senior Editor Mike LaSusa discussed some of our viewers' questions concerning the most pressing crime and corruption issues in...
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