InSight Crime explores the implications of the Spain Record Cocaine Seizure and what it means for drug trafficking patterns ...

From alleged narco-politicians to traffickers seeking to dominate the Caribbean coast, several high-profile Costa Rican ...

See our map showing where and when US strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific happened.

The arrest of several influencers in Brazil shows how social media allows for the laundering of the profits of criminal ...

The Shottas are one of the leading criminal groups in Colombia’s port city of Buenaventura. The group gained notoriety due to its fierce and violent rivalry with the city’s other principal criminal ...

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Carmen, Fernanda, Katherine, Lucia, Liliana, Marcela, Paulina, and Roxi* have lived in constant fear since 2019 — fear of being extorted, assaulted, murdered, or disappeared by Tren de Aragua, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a new report based on extensive field research, InSight Crime and the Asociacion para una Sociedad más Justa have traced how Honduras’ two largest gangs, the MS13 and the Barrio 18, are evolving, ...