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Organised crime

January 2024

  • Jordana Timerman

    Ecuador is copying El Salvador’s war on gangs – but it will only add to the spiral of violence

    Jordana Timerman
  • Ecuador Declares Internal Armed Conflict as Gunmen Take Over Live TV Broadcast and Narco Violence Spreads Across The Country<br>GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR - JANUARY 10: Police present detainees in the case of TC Televisión on January 10, 2024 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. President Noboa declared "internal armed conflict" after hooded and armed men broke into TC Television's live broadcast, among other violent incidents across the country on Tuesday. Ecuador has been hit by explosions, police kidnappings, and prison disturbances since Noboa on Monday declared a nationwide state of emergency after gang leader Adolfo "Fito" Macias escaped from a prison in Guayaquil. (Photo by Romina Duarte/Getty Images)

    The Guardian view on Ecuador’s gang violence: a domestic crisis with transnational roots

  • Father Maurizio Patriciello at San Paolo Apostolo church in Caivano, a crime-ridden town on the outskirts of Naples.

    ‘Meloni’s response left me stunned’: the Italian priest taking on the mafia

  • Swedish rapper and former gang member Sebastian Stakset

    ‘A bandage on a gunshot wound’: why Sweden is failing on gang violence

December 2023

  • A man in white coveralls, a blue hair net and sunglasses stands among cannabis plants in a white room

    Netherlands begins trial to make cannabis fully legal

    Experiment aims to make production, supply and smoking legal and remove effects of gang involvement
  • The Mexico state governor, Delfina Gómez

    Clash between criminal gang and villagers leaves 14 dead in central Mexico

    Video of fight shows villagers with sickles and rifles chasing down suspected gang members amid gunfire

    • Police still victim blaming in grooming gang cases, watchdog finds

    • Fraud should be treated like a national threat

    • Researchers create AI tool with a nose for fraudulent wine

October 2023

  • From left, Cheryl Shaw, Charlene and Sophie Ellis, and Letisha Shakespeare on New Year’s Eve, 2002

    Families of victims of UK’s notorious ‘Burger Bar Boys’ killers targeted 20 years on

    Campaign of intimidation began after the Birmingham gang were jailed for new year’s shooting of two teenage girls
  • An aerial view of an illegal gold mine in Triangulo de Telembi, Colombia.

    Environmental crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds

    Secrecy and lax oversight mean illegal loggers and miners in Amazon can park billions in real estate and other assets

    • Neomelodica star Tony Colombo arrested in Naples mafia swoop

    • Inside track
      Horse racing industry not equipped to tackle money laundering, organised crime expert says

    • Dozens of Malaysians rescued in Peru after being trafficked to commit online fraud

September 2023

  • Police officer at explosion scene

    Sweden reports record number of monthly fatal shootings

  • A pile of caimans in a concrete pit

    Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    Poached, caged, shipped in socks: on patrol with the police battling Colombia’s illegal wildlife trade

  • A mugshot of Matteo Messina Denaro after his arrest in Palermo on 16 January.

    Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘last godfather’ of Sicilian mafia, dies after long illness

  • An inmate speaking through a walkie-talkie on the roof of Turi prison in Cuenca

    Guards and police released after being held hostage in Ecuadorian prisons

June 2023

  • Beto Marubo in the Javari valley.

    The Bruno and Dom project
    Brazil’s Javari valley is under threat. Lula’s government must protect it and its people

    Beto Marubo
  • An aerial view of an illegal mining camp surrounding huts of an Indigenous tribe, taken during an operation by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) against Amazon deforestation at the Yanomami territory in Roraima State, Brazil, in February.

    The Bruno and Dom project
    Brazilian Amazon at risk of being taken over by mafia, ex-police chief warns

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