Middlemen Push Up Prices As Gazans Struggle To Survive
A broken and exploited system where money is skimmed at every point in the commercial supply chain puts the trickle of goods coming into...
A broken and exploited system where money is skimmed at every point in the commercial supply chain puts the trickle of goods coming into...
During his recent trip to Kenya, King Charles addressed colonial atrocities meted out by the British government. But his visit failed to hasten justice for a more recent incident –– a 2021 fire started by the British army, which consumed 10,000 acres of land and allegedly destroyed the livelihoods of 7,000 people in surrounding villages.
Sparked by a leak of emails from the Colombian prosecutor’s office, NarcoFiles is the largest investigative project on organized crime to originate in Latin America.
Think of the drug trade, and you might think of rigid hierarchies run by drug lords like Pablo Escobar or Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Today, the reality is far more complex.
Read more: The Highway to Europe - Inside A Global Drug Collaboration
NarcoFiles is the largest investigative project on organized crime to originate in Latin America.
Read more: What Is ‘NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order’? Everything You Need To Know
Drug traffickers are redrawing the map of the cocaine trade for the 21st century: Cultivation is spreading further north, into Central America, while processing labs are jumping across the Atlantic to Europe and beyond.
The names of more than 100 agents for the U.S. drug agency and other federal law enforcement entities were revealed in a massive leak of emails and other data from the Colombian prosecutor’s office.
Read more: Dozens of DEA Agents Exposed in Colombian Prosecutor’s Office Leak
Companies with ties to two CABEI consultants won contracts worth more than $1.6 million to advise the bank on its relationship with South Korea.
Read more: In CABEI’s Relationship with South Korea, a Potential Conflict of Interest
At least nine activists who opposed dams backed by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) development bank have been murdered, according to court cases, media reports, and statements by human rights groups.
Read more: The Deadly Price of Central America's Taste for Hydropower
Internal documents show the Central American Bank for Economic Integration ignored red flags, performed scant due diligence, and backed the Honduran dam even after a local man was killed amid protests by indigenous communities, and another funder said it was too risky to continue.
Read more: ‘New And Repeated Failures’: CABEI’s Many Mistakes in Funding the Agua Zarca Dam
The Central American Bank for Economic Integration was supposed to give the region more control over its own development — but a new investigation raises questions about the bank’s lending practices.
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