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 ...

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

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

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

Gang massacres in Mexico, Ecuador's hardline measures against drug violence, and legal action by victims of the US' missile ...

The fight against organized crime is now at the center of a trade war that has erupted between Colombia and Ecuador.

Tren de Aragua has quickly become one of the most infamous crime groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Governments across the region have deemed it a top security priority. The United States has ...

A border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana is turning violent after attacks on Guyanese security forces. Could the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro be using criminal gangs to provoke ...

Ten years ago, Tren de Aragua was a little more than a prison gang, confined to the walls of the Tocorón penitentiary and largely unheard of outside its home state of Aragua in Venezuela. Today, it is ...

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 ...

The criminal war in northeast Colombia has escalated into a new phase of violence, as intense fighting between two Colombian guerrilla groups erupted in the Catatumbo region, a key cocaine production ...

Over the last five years, Ecuador has been engulfed in violence and a criminal chaos unprecedented in its modern history. The roots of this security crisis can be traced directly to the country’s ...