Deep Dive: Exploring Organized Crime

By: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
  • Summary

  • Winner of the 'Best Deep Dive Podcast' at the 2024 Publishers Podcast Awards, shortlisted three times for 'Best Investigative Podcast' and once for 'Best Video Podcast'. The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime brings you stories and investigations from the global criminal underworld. The topics covered by Deep Dive are far ranging, one episode could be looking at a hybrid paramilitary organized criminal cartel; the next could be the dismantling of an encrypted communications network; or the use of complex corporate structures to hide illicit activity; or the role organized crime has in the recycling industry. This podcast series demonstrates the wide ranging investigations and research carried out by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
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Episodes
  • Colombia & Total Peace: Part 1 - "The ELN - The Easy Win"
    Oct 28 2024

    Colombia is a country that has been racked by conflict for around 60 years - multiple armed groups and organized crime have waged war against each other and the state.

    In 2016, after nearly seven years of negotiations, the FARC demobilized, creating a power vacuum that other groups, such as the National Liberation Army (ELN), Clan del Golfo, and FARC dissidents, quickly filled. Despite the FARC's exit, violence persisted, with cocaine production and illegal mining continuing unabated, leaving many communities under the control of criminal organizations.

    In 2022, the President of Colombia Gustavo Petro brought forward new legislation, known as 'Total Peace'. This ambitious and wide ranging policy looks to negotiate with all criminal groups, whether they are politically minded, like the FARC were or organized crime. Why? To help reduce violence, in particularly homicides, but also to try a new approach to end these long-running conflicts.

    One of the key players in these negotiations was the ELN, the oldest guerrilla group in the world. The Petro administration expressed optimism, claiming a peace agreement could be reached within three months of taking office. However, over two years later, those talks have stalled and ultimately collapsed, raising questions about the future of peace efforts in Colombia.

    Speaker(s):

    Juanita Durán-Vélez, Lawyer, Crime and Justice Lab, Colombia.

    Kyle Johnson, Researcher & Academic Director of the Conflict Responses Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia

    Felipe Botero Escobar, Head of Andean Regional Office, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

    Links:

    Andean Regional Office, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

    Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

    Podcast & Article - Clan del Golfo: The fall of 'Otoniel': How Colombia's biggest drug lord was taken down.

    Negotiating with Criminal Groups: Colombia´s Total Peace Policy

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