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 ...

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

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The Gaitanistas, also known as the Gulf Clan, Urabeños, and Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia – AGC), emerged from the ashes of Colombia’s paramilitary ...

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Increased cocaine production delivered an extra $25 billion in earnings to transnational organized crime in 2024, ensuring greater criminal sophistication and state penetration which, combined with a ...

In 2025, Colombia faced levels of violence not seen in years, driven by clashes among criminal groups that have strengthened their military power and territorial control in areas critical to illegal ...

For three days in July 2021, the Caracas neighborhood of Cota 905 became an urban warzone. Just blocks away from Venezuela’s Miraflores presidential palace, over 3,000 police and military backed by ...

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 ...

Is Venezuela now a hybrid state, where the line between governance and criminality has blurred or even disappeared altogether? The start of this evolution can be traced back 20 years to then-President ...

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 ...