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30 May, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Organized crime has no borders, this is what the 5 most read articles this week on insightcrime.org indicate ⬇️ Image
5⃣The day after a gang member left the hospital, four hitmen entered the bedroom where he had been staying and shot dead an innocent woman 16 times. This was just the latest in a series of daring executions in Ecuador. insightcrime.org//news/brazen-a…
4⃣The wife of a drug kingpin was murdered in Guatemala. Within hours, he had murdered those allegedly responsible during a prison riot he instigated. The power of Los Leones is still something to be reckoned with. insightcrime.org/news/the-leone…
3⃣Jesús Santrich, a demobilized former FARC leader who later became a founding member of the Segunda Marquetalia dissident group, was killed last week in Venezuela. Who killed him and how does this change the criminal landscape in the region? insightcrime.org/news/death-of-…
2⃣A Turkish drug trafficker has claimed the son of a former prime minister was personally responsible for setting up a Venezuela to Turkey cocaine route. But can those claims be trusted? insightcrime.org/news/mafia-ven…
1⃣Long considered untouchable, accused money launderer and alleged Texis Cartel boss Chepe Diablo has evaded prosecution once again after a court dropped money laundering charges against him. insightcrime.org/news/chepe-dia…
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