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Venezuela’s Brokers: The Networks That Outlasted Maduro
When private executive jets taxied across the tarmac of Caracas’s Maiquetía airport, the passengers boarding…
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The Half-Hour Before the Sanctions
In 2019 the US Treasury sanctioned Kassem Chams and his licensed exchange house in Chtaura,…
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The Ticket Out of Bogotá
Operation Titan grew from a Miami laundering inquiry into a Colombian–US case against Chekri Mahmoud…
Ayman Joumaa’s Business Between the Cartels
Ayman Joumaa was designated by the US Treasury in 2011 and indicted the same year on charges of coordinating cocaine…