Inside Viva Berta, where Honduras’ Garífuna communities confront organized crime, criminalization, and threats to their ...

Three years into Noboa’s crackdown on Ecuador gangs, killings have fallen but the country remains on track for one of its ...

A former OFAC compliance chief on what cartel terrorist designations changed for companies operating in Latin America.

InSight Crime reports from Culiacán two years into the war between Los Chapitos and La Mayiza began, where the violence has ...

Alleged Tiguerones leader William Alcívar, alias “Willy,” lives freely in Spain after Ecuador’s extradition bid stalled. He ...

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A wave of drone strikes has reportedly killed hundreds of alleged gang members in Port-au-Prince and temporarily shaken Haiti’s criminal landscape, but legal concerns and mounting civilian casualties ...

Despite the widespread use of states of emergency, the increasingly militarized response to organized crime, and the growth of criminal economies, the murder rate in 2025 across Latin America and the ...

Guatemala is returning to hardline security policies amid a resurgence of gang activity, two years after its president pledged a renewed approach to the problem. Upon taking office in January 2024, ...

For the last two years, Venezuelan states along the Colombian border have experienced firsthand the death and destruction of a war they had spent half a century observing from a distance. *This ...

The deadly US alleged drug boat strikes in international waters mark a quantum leap and an aggressive escalation in US counternarcotics policy, in which drug trafficking is treated as a national ...

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 ...