A rift within the Second Marquetalia underscores the fragility of alliances among illegal groups and highlights the ...

Record-breaking cocaine seizures in the Dominican Republic highlight the resurgence of the Caribbean as a major trafficking ...

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Gangs in Haiti are exploiting political turmoil to tighten their grip on the country, paralyzing domestic and international ...

InSight Crime has won the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize in the category of investigative journalism for the text ...

The assassination of a police informant in São Paulo’s main international airport has exposed serious flaws in Brazil's ...

The arrest of a high-ranking Tren de Aragua member is a significant blow to its Colombia operations and offers further proof ...

Foreign criminal groups in Latin America have taken on a new dimension in the last decade, with European networks directly ...

The Red Command (Comando Vermelho – CV) is Brazil’s oldest criminal group. Created in a Rio de Janeiro prison in the 1970s as a self-protection group for prisoners, it started out with low-level ...

The intervention in another Venezuelan prison under criminal leaders' control highlights the failure of President Nicolás ...

Earnings from Illegally extracted gold in Peru have soared to record levels, fueling criminal organizations amid ongoing ...

Iván Velásquez is a soft-spoken Colombian judge who has spent his entire career taking on presidents. In this podcast, we ...