InSight Crime Podcast
InSight Crime Podcast presents investigative journalism on organized crime across the Americas. Based on 15 years of fieldwork, the show features stories and analysis from the organization's investigators. Each episode explores the human impact of criminal networks and the complex dynamics of the illegal industry. The podcast covers regions from Patagonia to the Rio Grande Valley to the Andes.
Episodios
EP05 The Monster | English
Héctor Flores’ life changed forever when he learned that his son, Dani, had disappeared.Dani was one of over 8,000 people to go missing in his hometown of Guadalajara, and one of 130,000 around Mexico, where that word, “disappeared,” has become part of everyday life. In Guadalajara, most of those cases are blamed on the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which uses disappearances as a tool to exert so
EP05 El Monstruo | Español
La vida de Héctor Flores cambió para siempre cuando su hijo Dani desapareció.El caso de Dani es uno de los 8.000 de desaparición en Guadalajara, su ciudad natal, y uno de los 130.000 en todo México, donde la palabra “desaparecido” se ha vuelto parte de la vida cotidiana.En Guadalajara, el Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación ha instrumentalizado las desapariciones para ejercer control social, intimidar
EP04 - Gio and Fito: When Gangsta Rap Gets Real | English
Jorge Mora Villamar, known to his fans as Gio, was a rapper, music producer, and DJ. His talent lifted him out of poverty and off the streets of Guayaquil. But it also led him into the inner circle of Ecuador’s most notorious crime boss—and gave him a front-row seat to the criminal violence that has reshaped the country. When we met Gio in 2024, he explained the inner workings of the Choneros mafi
EP04 - Gio y Fito: Cuando el rap Gangsta se vuelve real | Español
Jorge Mora Villamar, conocido por sus seguidores como Gio, fue rapero, productor musical y DJ. Su talento lo sacó de la pobreza y de las calles de Guayaquil. Pero también lo llevó al círculo íntimo del jefe criminal más notorio de Ecuador y le dio un lugar en primera fila para ver a la violencia criminal transformar su país.Cuando conocimos a Gio en 2024, nos explicó cómo funcionaba la mafia de Lo
EP03 Three Ways to Lose a Son | English
Buenaventura is Colombia’s main Pacific port and one of the continent’s most strategic corridors for cocaine trafficking. For decades, this position has made the city a battleground between guerrilla groups, paramilitaries, and criminal gangs fighting for control of drug routes toward Europe and North America. The result is a city where men and women are killed, children disappear, and families le
EP03 Tres maneras de perder a un hijo | Español
Buenaventura es el principal puerto de Colombia sobre el Pacífico y uno de los corredores más estratégicos para el tráfico de cocaína en el continente. Durante décadas, esa condición lo convirtió en escenario de una guerra brutal entre guerrillas, paramilitares y pandillas que compiten por controlar la salida de droga hacia Europa y Norteamérica. El resultado: una ciudad donde hombres y mujeres mu
EP02 They Are Going to Kill Us | English
The international success of Venezuela’s most infamous criminal export, Tren de Aragua, was built on a model of exploiting the vulnerable. In Peru, they arrived on the backs of migrants. Then, they built their business on the backs of sex workers.The gang’s takeover of the city’s sex trade has left a trail of dead women as they have killed women who refuse to pay their extortion fees, then used t
EP02 Nos van a matar | Español
El éxito internacional del Tren de Aragua, la exportación criminal más infame de Venezuela, se construyó sobre un modelo basado en explotar a las personas más vulnerables. A Perú llegaron siguiendo la ruta de las personas migrantes y después, apalancaron su negocio a costa de las trabajadoras sexuales.El control del Tren de Aragua sobre el trabajo sexual en Lima ha dejado un rastro de asesinatos d
EP01 - A Marked House | English
For Andrés and Juliana, Durán was home. That is, until extortionists from one of Ecuador's most powerful gangs, the Chone Killers, attacked.Visit insightcrime.org for more
EP01 - Una casa marcada | Español
Para Andrés y Juliana, Durán era su hogar. Al menos, hasta que los extorsionadores de una de las bandas más poderosas de Ecuador, los «Chone Killers», los marcaron.Para más, visite insightcrime.org
Trailer segunda temporada | Español
Esas son las historias de la segunda temporada de InSight Crime Podcast. Historias que muestran el impacto real del crimen organizado en quienes lo enfrentan cada día.El primer episodio llega este 23 de julio. Después tendremos una entrega cada semana.Conozca más sobre el podcast y escuche todos los episodios en la página del podcast de InSight Crime.Para recibir cada nuevo episodio y contenido ex
Trailer Season 2 | English
Esas son las historias de la segunda temporada de InSight Crime Podcast. Historias que muestran el impacto real del crimen organizado en quienes lo enfrentan cada día. El primer episodio llega este 23 de julio. Después tendremos una entrega cada semana. Conozca más sobre el podcast y escuche todos los episodios en la página del podcast de InSight Crime. Para recibir cada nuevo episodio y conteni
EP06 - The Rebel and the Peacemaker
In our last episode of this season we explore the incredible life of Raúl Mijango, the rebel turned congressman turned gang mediator turned inmate who personified what has since become a lost cause in El Salvador: negotiating with street gangs. And, ironically, may have been one of the first victims of a controversial, hard line strategy that has since led to the incarceration of tens of thousands
EP05 - Crime Strengthens Crime
Judge Ivana David has been working in the Brazil's prison system for 30 years, which gave her a front row seat to the emergence of the PCC.Its rise startled Brazil and beyond, but it is was not anomaly. In fact, it is part of a region-wide trend where prison-based criminal groups dominate the underworld in the Americas.
EP04 - Demented Society
Abraham Barberi is a walking paradox. He is from Mexico but lives in the United States. He does missionary work but plays guitar in a death metal band. He is a Baptist pastor but advocates for migrants and asylum seekers. This is the story of how he navigates these contradictions in Matamoros, the birthplace of Mexico’s Gulf Cartel and one of the country’s most dangerous cities.
EP03 - One prison, two gangs
On June 20, 2023, at least 46 inmates were killed by members of the Barrio 18 gang at Honduras’ National Female Penitentiary for Social Adaptation, in what was one of the deadliest massacres ever recorded in a women’s prison in Latin America. But it wasn’t the first massacre in this prison. Three years earlier, six women, allegedly linked to the MS13, also lost their lives at the hands of the Barr
EP02 - Daughter of Coca
In Colombia, farming coca for cocaine production provides an alternative livelihood in the midst of poverty and state abandonment. At the same time, coca cultivation brings a curse. Behind the coca trade are armed groups, massacres, murders, and displacements. This dichostomy can only be truly understood by those who have experienced it firsthand, as Ana has done. Through her story, InSight Crime
EP01 - Why Bolivia is Burning
In 2019, a series of wildfires—largely set to clear land for agribusiness and make way for new residents — devastated Santa Cruz, the Bolivian state on the edge of the Amazon. Behind the fires was a pernicious force: organized crime. Illegal land grabs and timber traffickers spurred the wildfires, which continue today. In this podcast, through the stories of two volunteer firefighters, InSight Cri
