Which Latin American countries collaborate with the US on anti-narcotics? Consult this map for a look at the ever-evolving ...

Presidents Trump and Petro meet at the White House, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warns of AI's potential to be weaponized by organized crime for elections, and Costa Rica's president-elect Laura ...

Mexico's extradition request for several American citizens accused of smuggling stolen oil exposes an imbalance in the ...

What does the future hold for the United States' relationship with Honduras? What can we deduct about Mexico's crime wars from a mass kidnapping? And will a high-level political arrest in Ecuador help ...

What comes next for Venezuela’s Cartel of the Suns? In this exclusive event, InSight Crime analyzes cocaine trafficking after Maduro.

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The gang's days of playing Robin Hood to locals are over as it shifts its focus to the internaitonal cocaine trade.

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 ...

At least 121,695 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2024, putting the median homicide rate at around 20.2 per 100,000 people, about the same rate as 2023. The already ...

Record cocaine production and high demand for the drug contributed to criminal violence across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, as traffickers established new routes to bypass increasing ...

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 ...

Women’s participation in organized crime groups is not uniform. The diverse roles that women play in criminal economies allow us to characterize different types of participation, forming a spectrum ...