In attempting to target gang leadership, Guatemala's government instead exposed its limited capacity to do so.

Which Latin American countries collaborate with the US on anti-narcotics? Consult this map for a look at the ever-evolving ...

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 ...

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 ...

What comes next for Venezuela’s Cartel of the Suns? In this exclusive event, InSight Crime analyzes cocaine trafficking after Maduro.

Negotiating peace with the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) lay at the heart of Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s election campaign and his Total Peace (Paz Total) ...

The deadly US military strikes against alleged drug-carrying vessels in international waters mark a quantum leap and an aggressive escalation in US counternarcotics policy, in which drug trafficking ...

The crisis in Ecuador’s prisons has escaped the confines of the penitentiary system to sow violence, corruption, and chaos around the country. The political assassinations, terrorist-style attacks, ...

A border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana is turning violent after attacks on Guyanese security forces. Could the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro be using criminal gangs to provoke ...

Organized crime — particularly cocaine trafficking — has been the main driver of homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade, according to data compiled by InSight Crime. While ...

Ten years ago, Tren de Aragua was a little more than a prison gang, confined to the walls of the Tocorón penitentiary and largely unheard of outside its home state of Aragua in Venezuela. Today, it is ...

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 ...