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Al pasar la página de 2025, analizamos los principales hechos, desarrollos y tendencias que marcaron al crimen organizado en América Latina este año. En Colombia, los ambiciosos intentos del presidente Gustavo Petro de negociar la paz con los grupos criminales colombianos enfrentaron repetidos obstáculos durante el último año.En la Narrated Story de esta semana, compartimos un capítulo de nuestra serie de fin de año GameChangers, que analiza los altibajos del plan de Paz Total de Petro en 2025.Este año también marca diez años de nuestras recopilaciones anuales GameChangers. Con una década de monitoreo sistemático, brindamos el contexto necesario para comprender tanto las dinámicas recientes como los patrones más amplios que las sustentan.El laberinto sin salida de la Paz Total en Colombia | Escrito por Sara García y Henry Shuldiner, y leído por Daniel Reyes.Visite insightcrime.org para más información.

In Colombia, President Gustavo Petro’s ambitious attempts to negotiate peace with Colombian criminal groups faced repeated setbacks in 2025.For this week’s Narrated Story, we’re sharing one chapter from our year-end GameChangers series, which analyzes the ups and downs of Petro’s Total Peace plan over the past year.2025 also marks ten years of our GameChangers annual roundups. Using a decade of systematic monitoring, we give you the context you need to understand both recent dynamics and the broader patterns behind them.Colombia's Total Peace Remains in Pieces | Written by Sara Garcia and read by Henry Shuldiner.Visit insightcrime.org for more information.

Exactly one year ago, we reported that migrant smuggling had gone from a tertiary criminal economy to a major revenue stream for some of the region’s most powerful organized crime groups.But in just a few months in 2025, that flourishing criminal economy built around migrant smuggling dried up. This week, we examine and explain that phenomenon, diving into an article from our signature GameChangers series, which spotlights the biggest shifts in organized crime across Latin America. Migration Smuggling Market Goes From Boom to Bust | Written by Victoria Dittmar and Sam Woolston, and read by Liza Schmidt.Visit insightcrime.org for more information.

Hace exactamente un año, informamos que el tráfico de migrantes había pasado de ser una economía criminal terciaria a convertirse en una importante fuente de ingresos para algunos de los grupos criminales más poderosos de la región.Pero en unos pocos meses en 2025, la próspera economía criminal construida en torno al tráfico de migrantes se secó.Esta semana, analizamos y explicamos ese fenómeno con un artículo de nuestra serie insignia GameChangers, que examina los mayores cambios en el crimen organizado en América Latina. Migration Smuggling Market Goes From Boom to Bust | Escrito por por Victoria Dittmar y Sam Woolston, y leído por Daniel Reyes.Visite insightcrime.org para más información.

Every year, we bring you our annual GameChangers series, which breaks down the year’s biggest organized crime stories from across the region.This is the tenth edition of our series, and this year, we are looking back not just at the events of 2025, but over the last decade, which has brought tectonic shifts in criminal markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the series, we will look at how the migrant smuggling market went bust and the explosion in the use of cryptocurrency by organized crime. We will explain the evolution of the region’s marijuana market and the rapid growth of environmental crime. Colombia’s Total Peace process will be put under the microscope, as well as the seismic shift in the United States’ drug war in the region. How the Trump Administration Reset the Fight Against Organized Crime | Written by Steven Dudley and Jeremy McDermott, and read by Steven Dudley.Visit insightcrime.org for more information.