As the United States drags the drug war back in time, traffickers are leaping forward, creating new ways of disguising and ...

The arrest of several influencers in Brazil shows how social media allows for the laundering of the profits of criminal ...

El Jardinero” captured in Mexico, attacks by FARC dissidents in Colombia, and the intensification of US anti-drug airstrikes.

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Extortion has skyrocketed in Ecuador as criminal groups have gained power. The problem seems to be worsening, despite authorities claims.

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US prosecutors have outlined a staggering system of criminal governance in an explosive indictment against the sitting governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state for alleged links to the… In July 2024, ...

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A staggering system of criminal governance between the governor of Mexico's Sinaloa state and the Chapitos faction of the ...

In 2020, the US Department of Justice released a bombshell indictment charging sitting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior members of his government with “narco-terrorism” and ...

In March 2019, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro created a new wing of the Bolivarian Revolution political movement, the Peace Defender Squads (Cuadrillas Defensoras de la Paz). The squads, known by ...

In a new report based on extensive field research, InSight Crime and the Asociacion para una Sociedad más Justa have traced how Honduras’ two largest gangs, the MS13 and the Barrio 18, are evolving, ...