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Steven Dudley is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime and a senior research fellow at American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies in Washington, DC. In 2020, Dudley published his second book, MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins), which in 2019 won the Lukas Prize for work-in-progress. Dudley is the former bureau chief of the Miami Herald in the Andean Region and the author of Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Routledge 2004). Dudley has also reported from Haiti, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba and Miami for National Public Radio and the Washington Post, among others. He holds a BA in Latin American History from Cornell University and an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and is a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

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How Mexico Loses the Precursor Chemical Money Trail

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Steven Dudley by Victoria Dittmar and Steven Dudley 7 May 20243 Jul 2024
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Brazil’s PCC Wades into Municipal Contracts Game

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 18 Apr 202427 May 2024
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GameChangers 2023: The Cocaine Flash-to-Bang in 2024

Jeremy McDermottSteven Dudley by Jeremy McDermott and Steven Dudley 5 Jan 20248 Jan 2024
Posted inNews GameChangers

GameChangers 2023: Through the Looking Glass

Steven DudleyJeremy McDermott by Steven Dudley and Jeremy McDermott 26 Dec 202322 Dec 2023
Rows of Honduran soldiers deployed under state of emergency
Posted inNews Security Policy

Honduras and El Salvador: Two States of Emergency With Very Different Results

Steven Dudley by Peter Appleby and Steven Dudley 6 Dec 20237 Dec 2023
Detained MS13 leader Élmer Canales Rivera, alias “Crook,”
Posted inNews MS13

Capture of MS13 Leader Exposes US-El Salvador Rift

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley 9 Nov 202310 Nov 2023
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Posted inNews Mexico

An Extradition (and a Fentanyl Prohibition) as Mexico Tries a Counterdrug Reset

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley and Victoria Dittmar 18 Sep 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inInvestigations Mexico

Human Trafficking on the US-Mexico Border: Family Clans, Coyotes, or ‘Cartels’?

Steven Dudley by Parker Asmann and Steven Dudley 30 Aug 202313 Oct 2023
Posted inNews Homicides

The Cocaine Problem Ecuador’s Presidential Candidates Cannot Wish Away

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley and Luisa Acosta 28 Aug 20233 Jul 2024
Posted inInvestigations Mexico

The Gauntlet: One Migrant’s Journey from Venezuela to the US-Mexico Border

Steven Dudley by Steven Dudley and Parker Asmann 28 Jun 202316 Oct 2023
Posted inInvestigations Mexico

How US Policy Foments Organized Crime on US-Mexico Border

Steven Dudley by Parker Asmann and Steven Dudley 28 Jun 202316 Oct 2023

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