Paula Tobo Jay Albanese Mariana Botero Restrepo

The path to the North: Migrant smuggling in the Darien region

A Talk by Jay Albanese , Paula Tobo and Mariana Botero Restrepo

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About this Talk

This panel will discuss the findings of an investigation held in the Darien Region on criminal dynamics and migrant smuggling, a region that has seen an increase in migration of over 300%. This region falls under the influence of Colombia’s largest criminal organisation, comprises multiple illegal economies, drug, and gold trafficking routes, has seen a larger influence of different foreign criminal actors and a significant change in the profile of migrants, related to international politics.

13 October 2022

7:30 PM - 8:45 PM GMT

About The Speakers

Jay Albanese

Jay Albanese

Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

Professor in the Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University and specializes in organized crime, corruption, ethics and transnational crime.


Paula Tobo

Paula Tobo

Junior researcher at Fundación Ideas para la Paz (FIP). Violence, security, armed conflict and peacebuilding


Mariana Botero Restrepo

Mariana Botero Restrepo

GI TOC

Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime