InSight Crime Podcast
InSight Crime
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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.
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EP03 Three Ways to Lose a Son | English 06.08.2026 20minBuenaventura 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 learn to live with uncertainty as a permanent companion.In this episode, we travel to Buenaventura and meet Elena, an Afro-Colombian woman in her sixties who arrived in the city as a child after armed groups killed her parents in her hometown. Buenaventura took her in, and she made it her own. She had seven children and built a life.But the war that brought her there never left.Three of her children have disappeared. Each one, in a different way.The first was Luis, who one day simply vanished. The second was Esteban, whose whereabouts Elena still does not know after years of searching. The third was Josué, her nephew whom she raised as a son, whose skull was found in an estuary by a forensic team in December 2021 — three years after his disappearance.Carmen, Josué’s mother, died on August 14, 2024. Thirteen days later, authorities confirmed that the remains found in the estuary belonged to her son. She never had the chance to say goodbye.Elena continues waiting for news about Esteban. Even if it is just a small bone, she says.We investigate how the armed conflict in Buenaventura has attempted to destroy the social fabric of a city that, despite everything, preserves its joy, its rain, and the generosity of its people. Through Elena’s story, we understand how violence does not only kill — it erases people, breaks families, and leaves mothers waiting for answers that sometimes arrive too late, and sometimes never arrive at all.Visit insightcrime.org to learn more about Buenaventura and the criminal dynamics shaping Colombia and the region. -
EP03 Tres maneras de perder a un hijo | Español 06.08.2026 21minBuenaventura 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 mueren, niños desaparecen y las familias aprenden a vivir con la incertidumbre como compañera permanente.En este episodio visitamos Buenaventura y conocimos a Elena, una mujer afrocolombiana de unos sesenta años que llegó a la ciudad siendo niña, después de que grupos armados mataran a sus padres en su ciudad natal. Buenaventura la recibió y ella la hizo suya. Tuvo siete hijos. Construyó una vida.Pero la guerra que la trajo hasta aquí nunca se fue. Tres de sus hijos han desaparecido. Cada uno, de una manera distinta.El primero fue Luis, quien un día, sencillamente, se desvaneció. El segundo fue Esteban, cuyo paradero Elena sigue sin conocer después de años de búsqueda. El tercero fue Josué, su sobrino criado como un hijo, cuyo cráneo fue encontrado en un estero por un equipo forense en diciembre de 2021 — tres años después de su desaparición.Carmen, la mamá de Josué, murió el 14 de agosto de 2024. Trece días después, las autoridades confirmaron que los restos encontrados en el estero eran los de su hijo. Ella nunca pudo darle el último adiós.Elena sigue esperando noticias de Esteban. Aunque sea un huesito, dice.Investigamos cómo el conflicto armado en Buenaventura ha intentado destruir el tejido comunitario de una ciudad que, a pesar de todo, conserva su alegría, su lluvia y la generosidad de sus vecinos. A través de la historia de Elena, entendemos cómo la violencia no solo mata — borra personas, rompe familias y deja a las madres esperando noticias que a veces llegan demasiado tarde, y a veces no llegan nunca.Visite InSight Crime para conocer más sobre Buenaventura y las dinámicas criminales que están moldeando a Colombia y al resto de la región. -
EP02 They Are Going to Kill Us | English 30.07.2026 29minThe 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 their murders to send a chilling message to those that remain. But amid the atmosphere of fear, there remain those willing to raise their voices in resistance against the terror—and in remembrance of those lost to it.In 2024, InSight Crime reporters met with Leida Portal and Ángela Villón, two activists who had spent decades defending Lima’s sex workers from a state that neglected them, police that abused and extorted them, and a society that didn’t care. Today, their struggle is not just for the rights of sex workers to a dignified life. It is for survival. This episode is also available in Spanish. Visit insightcrime.org to learn more about Tren de Aragua and the criminal dynamics shaping Perú and the region. -
EP02 Nos van a matar | Español 30.07.2026 34minEl 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 de las trabajadoras sexuales que se niegan a pagar las extorsiones y utiliza esos crímenes para enviar un mensaje de terror a las demás. Pero, incluso en medio del miedo, hay quienes siguen alzando la voz para resistir y para mantener viva la memoria de las que ya no están.En 2024, periodistas de InSight Crime conocieron a Leida Portal y Ángela Villón, dos activistas que durante décadas han defendido a las trabajadoras sexuales de Lima frente a un Estado que las abandona, una policía que las abusa y extorsiona, y una sociedad que les da la espalda. Hoy, su lucha ya no es solo por el derecho de las trabajadoras sexuales a una vida digna. Es una lucha por sobrevivir.Este episodio también está disponible en inglés.Visite InSight Crime para conocer más sobre el Tren de Aragua y las dinámicas criminales que están moldeando a Perú y al resto de la región. -
EP01 - A Marked House | English 23.07.2026 16minFor 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 23.07.2026 19minPara 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 16.07.2026 2minEsas 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 exclusivo directamente en su correo, suscríbase al boletín From the Ground Up. -
Trailer Season 2 | English 16.07.2026 2minEsas 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 exclusivo directamente en su correo, suscríbase al boletín From the Ground Up. -
EP06 - The Rebel and the Peacemaker 03.10.2025 34minIn 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 of Salvadorans. -
EP05 - Crime Strengthens Crime 03.10.2025 31minJudge 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 03.10.2025 31minAbraham 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 03.10.2025 31minOn 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 Barrio 18 gang there. InSight Crime tells the stories of two rival gang members inside this prison, who, despite coming from very similar contexts, are ready to engage in a war with each other. -
EP02 - Daughter of Coca 03.10.2025 27minIn 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 explores the evolution of organized crime in Putumayo, Colombia — and how, despite promises of peace, coca continues to affect the fate of an entire department. -
EP01 - Why Bolivia is Burning 03.10.2025 25minIn 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 Crime will tell the story of these fires and the criminals behind them, some of whom come from the government itself.
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