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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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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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 ...

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 ...

Countries across Latin America and the Caribbean continued to experience high murder rates in 2022, as cocaine production reached new heights, the fragmentation of gangs continued, and the flow of ...

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 ...

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 ...