Thread by @InSightCrime

Colombo-Venezuelan Guerrillas. A Mexican governor about to face an arrest warrant. The migrant smuggling business on the US-Mexico border. Illegal loggers in Guatemala and Mexico. And a passport scandal in Uruguay.

These were the most read this week on insightcrime.org🧵

5️⃣ The head of security for Uruguay's president allegedly used his position to help Russian citizens get fake papers to claim Uruguayan citizenship.

Is Uruguay’s reputation as the « Switzerland of Latin America » at risk? bit.ly/3MeCbBb

4️⃣ InSight Crime journeyed deep into the jungle to reveal how a shadowy timber mafia with ties to Asia is illegally extracting precious wood on the #Guatemala-#Mexico border. bit.ly/3CGXZCA

3️⃣ Deaths don’t seem to slow the human smuggling-industrial complex on the US-Mexico border and organized crime groups are cashing in. bit.ly/3T1U1cW

2️⃣ The immunity enjoyed by a Mexican governor facing an arrest warrant, accused of money laundering, embezzling state funds and links to cartels, is about to expire when his term ends.

Will politics frustrate efforts to hold sitting officials accountable? bit.ly/3MizQFG

1️⃣ InSight Crime’s latest investigation explores how Colombia’s rebel groups migrated to Venezuela, becoming #BinationalGuerrillas
bit.ly/3CFwUzu