The InSight Take: Organized Crime Adopts the Latest Technologies in the Drone-IED Arms Race
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The InSight Take: Organized Crime Adopts the Latest Technologies in the Drone-IED Arms Race Organized crime groups across Latin America are weaponizing commercial drones, pairing them with IEDs to attack rivals, security forces, and civilians. From CJNG's drone unit in Mexico to gang warfare in Rio's favelas and ELN surveillance drones in Colombia, InSight Crime co-director Jeremy McDermott joins Deborah Bonello to ask whether governments can actually keep pace with the threat. The post The InSight Take: Organized Crime Adopts the Latest Technologies in the Drone-IED Arms Race appeared first o
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