Montes de María: Who inherited the AUC's bloodstained wealth?

This paper reflects on who was sent the money and power accumulated by the self-defense groups of Colombia, and which presents some results concerning the companies and farmers who supported the rise and now seem to be the main beneficiaries of the situation. From that experience alone were as prejudiced as ever the farmers, owners of small parcels and thousands displaced

Montes de Maí­a: ¿quién heredó la riqueza manchada de sangre de las AUC?

This paper reflects on who was sent the money and power accumulated by the self-defense groups of Colombia, and which presents some results concerning the companies and farmers who supported the rise and now seem to be the main beneficiaries of the situation. From that experience alone were as prejudiced as ever the farmers, owners of small parcels and thousands displaced.El presente texto realiza una reflexión sobre a quien se transmitió el dinero y el poder acumulado por las autodefensas unidas de Colombia (AUC), y para lo cual presenta algunos resultados referentes a las empresas y ganaderos que apoyaron el surgimiento y que hoy parecen ser los principales beneficiados de dicha situación. De dicha experiencia solo quedaron como perjudicados los de siempre: los campesinos, los dueños de las pequeñas parcelas y los miles de desplazados

Montes de María: who inherited the auc´s bloodstained wealth?

This paper reflects on who was sent the money and power accumulated by the self-defense groups of Colombia, and which presents some results concerning the companies and farmers who supported the rise and now seem to be the main beneficiaries of the situation. From that experience alone were as prejudiced as ever the farmers, owners of small parcels and thousands displaced.El presente texto realiza una reflexión sobre a quien se transmitió el dinero y el poder acumulado por las autodefensas unidas de Colombia (AUC), y para lo cual presenta algunos resultados referentes a las empresas y ganaderos que apoyaron el surgimiento y que hoy parecen ser los principales beneficiados de dicha situación. De dicha experiencia solo quedaron como perjudicados los de siempre: los campesinos, los dueños de las pequeñas parcelas y los miles de desplazados

Peru\u27s Patrones and Their Patrons

The Patrones de Ucayali, a criminal network led by a former police officer, illegally felled the forests of eastern Peru to feed domestic and international black markets. This extensive enterprise involved dozens of loggers, transporters and middlemen who brought the timber out of the jungle and took it to Lima, as well as government officials and moneymen who legalized the shipments by falsifying official permits. Nearly eight months after the wiretaps were installed, the conversations on the phones suddenly changed. The talk of logging, laundering and shipping illegal wood stopped. Instead, the voices talked of destroying evidence and ditching phones. They knew who was listening. By the time prosecutors executed their arrest warrants, the leaders of the network they had dubbed the “Patrones de Ucayali,” or the “Bosses of Ucayali,” had disappeared. And the first organized crime case to be brought against Peru’s timber mafias was left with the dregs of the organization, the lowly criminals that took bribes, forged paperwork and cut down trees

Timber Laundering in Peru: The Mafia in the Middle

Illegal timber in Peru is sourced and sold across the country. But most of the money laundering happens in between these destinations. Our team traveled to Pucallpa, the hub of this illicit activity. Lashed together in great long rafts or piled high on river barges, logs float in from the wildest reaches of the Amazon to converge on one part of eastern Peru: Pucallpa, the city where the destruction of the rainforest becomes legal. Hacked out of the jungle on the banks of the Ucayali river and linked to Lima by highway, Pucallpa connects the wilderness of central and northern Peru to its biggest domestic timber market and its principal international port. This makes it a key transit hub for an industry that moves around 2.6 million cubic meters of wood every year. Anywhere between 40 to 80 percent of this wood is illegal, according to estimates by government bodies and independent experts

GameChangers 2019: Illegal Mining, Latin America’s Go-To Criminal Economy

“The criminal, economic and political dynamics behind illegal gold rushes this past year in Venezuela and Ecuador were very different. But both countries illustrate the same trend: that illegal mining has become the fastest growing criminal economy wherever there are deposits to exploit

Panel 2: Crímenes ambientales y ecotráfico

¿Cuáles son las implicaciones sociales, políticas y criminales de la deforestación masiva del Amazonas y el crecimiento de los crímenes ambientales

Panel 2: Environmental Crimes and Eco-trafficking

What are the social, political and criminal implications of massive deforestation of the Amazon and the growth in environmental crimes