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 ...

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 ...

On April 27, Mexican security forces mounted an operation in the Pacific coast state of Nayarit and captured Audias Flores Silva, alias “El Jardinero,” a top regional commander of the Jalisco Cartel ...

The capture in Mexico of an influential Jalisco Cartel New Generation leader known as El Jardinero marks another possible inflection point for the country’s most formidable criminal network just two ...

Amid record production levels, the cocaine business is entering a new age, driven by diversifying markets, global networks, and new technology. Every year, InSight Crime gathers as much data as it can ...

Venezuela has approved a new mining law to open the gold industry to international investors, but the legislation overlooks the symbiosis between illegal mining and the national government—and the ...

US prosecutors have outlined a staggering system of criminal governance in an explosive indictment against the sitting governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state for alleged links to the… In July 2024, ...