Christopher Newton
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Uruguay-based organized crime senior investigator with InSight Crime’s Monitoring and Data Unit | PoliSci PhD | Southern Cone, Brazil, cybersecurity | cnewton@insightcrime.org | talk to me in 🇺🇸🇺🇾🇧🇷🇫🇷
As #TrenDeAragua makes headlines around the region, more information about the gang is becoming known. But more misinformation flows as well. InSight Crime's latest investigation sorts the fact from the fiction
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Tren de Aragua: Fact vs. Fiction
Tren de Aragua has quickly become one of the most infamous crime groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Three years of on-the-ground reporting across various countries sheds new light on the reali...
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August 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
As #TrenDeAragua makes headlines around the region, more information about the gang is becoming known. But more misinformation flows as well. InSight Crime's latest investigation sorts the fact from the fiction
insightcrime.org/investigatio...
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Mientras #TrenDeAragua ocupa los titulares de toda la región, se va conociendo más información sobre la banda. Pero también circula más desinformación. La última investigación de InSight Crime separa la realidad de la ficción.
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Tren de Aragua, entre la realidad y la ficción
El Tren de Aragua se ha convertido rápidamente en uno de los grupos criminales más infames de América Latina y el Caribe. Tres años de trabajos de campo en diversos países arrojan luz sobre el Tren de...
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August 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Mientras #TrenDeAragua ocupa los titulares de toda la región, se va conociendo más información sobre la banda. Pero también circula más desinformación. La última investigación de InSight Crime separa la realidad de la ficción.
insightcrime.org/es/investiga...
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Las disputas entre grupos criminales locales y nacionales por rutas y mercados de droga han convertido al estado nororiental de Ceará en uno de los principales epicentros de violencia de Brasil.
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Las guerras criminales que impulsan el aumento de homicidios en Ceará, Brasil
La disputa de grupos criminales por rutas y mercados de drogas ha convertido a Ceará en uno de los principales epicentros de violencia de Brasil.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Las disputas entre grupos criminales locales y nacionales por rutas y mercados de droga han convertido al estado nororiental de Ceará en uno de los principales epicentros de violencia de Brasil.
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Local and national criminal networks battling over drug routes and markets have turned Brazil’s northeastern state of Ceará into one of the country’s main epicenters of violence.
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The Crime Wars Driving Rising Homicides in Ceará, Brazil
Criminal networks battling over drug routes and markets have made the northeastern state of Ceará into one of Brazil's violence epicenters.
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August 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Local and national criminal networks battling over drug routes and markets have turned Brazil’s northeastern state of Ceará into one of the country’s main epicenters of violence.
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Aún más noticias sobre #Marset. Ultima Hora reporta que Federico Ezequiel Santoro Vasallo, hombre clave el la red criminal, se declara culpable por lavado de activos
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Santoro, hombre clave de Marset, se declara culpable por lavado de dinero en EEUU
Federico Ezequiel Santoro Vasallo, alias Capitán, se declaró culpable de lavado de millones de dólares, provenientes del narcotráfico. Era considerado un hombre clave en el esquema del supuesto narcot...
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May 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Aún más noticias sobre #Marset. Ultima Hora reporta que Federico Ezequiel Santoro Vasallo, hombre clave el la red criminal, se declara culpable por lavado de activos
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Had the pleasure to talk with Sean Williams about who organized crime is evolving in Uruguay for the Underworld Podcast. Give it a listen to learn more about this under-covered country
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May 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Had the pleasure to talk with Sean Williams about who organized crime is evolving in Uruguay for the Underworld Podcast. Give it a listen to learn more about this under-covered country
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May 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Tuta, believed to be the PCC's #1 on the streets was arrested. But for a group that was born and raised in the prisons, I wonder what, if anything, another arrest will achieve. Maybe disruptions to communications and logistics, but the PCC has always adapted in the past
O que sabemos sobre a prisão de Tuta, substituto de Marcola no PCC | CNN Brasil
A detenção de Tuta aconteceu na tarde de sexta-feira (16), quando ele tentou renovar sua licença para permanecer no país utilizando um documento falso
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May 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Tuta, believed to be the PCC's #1 on the streets was arrested. But for a group that was born and raised in the prisons, I wonder what, if anything, another arrest will achieve. Maybe disruptions to communications and logistics, but the PCC has always adapted in the past
Paraguay's anti-drug authority detected what it believes to be the first ever methamphetamine laboratory in the country.
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SENAD en alerta ante detección del primer laboratorio clandestino de metanfetamina en Paraguay :: SENAD
La Secretaría Nacional Antidrogas (SENAD), a través de su Oficina Regional Nº 2 de Ciudad del Este, llevó a cabo una intervención en una vivienda ubicada en el Km 24, lado Acaray, de la ciudad de Ming...
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May 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Paraguay's anti-drug authority detected what it believes to be the first ever methamphetamine laboratory in the country.
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O anuário de apreensões de cocaína de 2024 da InSight Crime acaba de ser divulgado. Neste 🧵 conto a vocês algumas das principais descobertas.
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Para começar, 2024 parece ter registrado um número recorde de recordes.
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Para começar, 2024 parece ter registrado um número recorde de recordes.
InSight Crime’s 2024 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up
Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets in 2024.
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May 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
O anuário de apreensões de cocaína de 2024 da InSight Crime acaba de ser divulgado. Neste 🧵 conto a vocês algumas das principais descobertas.
insightcrime.org/news/insight...
Para começar, 2024 parece ter registrado um número recorde de recordes.
insightcrime.org/news/insight...
Para começar, 2024 parece ter registrado um número recorde de recordes.
Acaba de salir el Balance de InSight Crime de #incautaciones de #cocaína de 2024. En este 🧵 les cuento algunos de los principales hallazgos.
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Arranquemos. 2024 parece tener un número récord de récords
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Arranquemos. 2024 parece tener un número récord de récords
Balance de InSight Crime de incautaciones de cocaína de 2024
En 2024 se produjeron incautaciones récord de cocaína en la región. Pero esta economía criminal apenas se vio afectada.
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May 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Acaba de salir el Balance de InSight Crime de #incautaciones de #cocaína de 2024. En este 🧵 les cuento algunos de los principales hallazgos.
insightcrime.org/es/noticias/...
Arranquemos. 2024 parece tener un número récord de récords
insightcrime.org/es/noticias/...
Arranquemos. 2024 parece tener un número récord de récords
InSight Crime’s 2024 #Cocaine #Seizures Round-Up is out. I’ll go through a few of the major findings in this 🧵
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To start off, 2024 seems to have had a record number of records.
insightcrime.org/news/insight...
To start off, 2024 seems to have had a record number of records.
InSight Crime’s 2024 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up
Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets in 2024.
insightcrime.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
InSight Crime’s 2024 #Cocaine #Seizures Round-Up is out. I’ll go through a few of the major findings in this 🧵
insightcrime.org/news/insight...
To start off, 2024 seems to have had a record number of records.
insightcrime.org/news/insight...
To start off, 2024 seems to have had a record number of records.
Interesting investigation by @nucleo.jor.br about steroid trafficking through social media
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A marca que criou um império ilegal de comércio de “bombas” nas redes
Empresa de esteroides clandestinos usa Instagram, TikTok e YouTube para promover hormônios ilegais a fisiculturistas amadores; operação de marketing digital da marca pode ser a maior do segmento no pa...
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May 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Interesting investigation by @nucleo.jor.br about steroid trafficking through social media
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