As International Women’s Day approaches, women continue to be a fundamental part of Latin America’s organized crime groups ...

A lavish narco-funeral in Mexico, why violence is rising in Ecuador despite hard-line security measures, and the regional ...

How the killing of El Mencho could impact the CJNG, as well as Mexico's criminal future, drawing on lessons from the past.

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 ...

Criminal actors in Mexico are becoming more professional, driving up murder rates each year Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated, and most violent organized criminal ...

Today, the violence is the result of the rapid growth of the CJNG, which emerged in 2010 after the fragmentation of the Sinaloa and Milenio cartels. Since then, the group has spent years developing a ...

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Authorities at Brazil's Port of Santos are analyzing new intelligence and data to identify how drug traffickers operate and intercept them.

Is Venezuela now a hybrid state, where the line between governance and criminality has blurred or even disappeared altogether? The start of this evolution can be traced back 20 years to then-President ...

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 ...

Guatemala’s criminal organizations are among the most sophisticated in Central America. Some of them have been in operation for decades. They include former members of the military, intelligence ...

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 ...