The Nicaraguan government is systematically persecuting political opponents and potentially protecting powerful criminal interests at home.

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

Why is the deportation of a key Chavista figure to the US so important? How will Colombia’s elections affect organized crime in the country? What does the surrender of two officials mean for the US ...

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

Before fentanyl reaches the streets, a wide range of actors influence its movement across Mexico and into the United States, from precursor chemical suppliers and independent clandestine producers to ...

The recent arrest of alleged Albanian drug trafficker Ervin Mata in Brazil is the latest example of how Balkan-origin criminal service providers operate in Latin America. Mata, who was arrested April ...

The appointment of Gabriel Estuardo García Luna as Guatemala’s new attorney general could put the brakes on a period of extreme judicial backsliding, though the top prosecutor inherits a hollowed-out ...

Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego, alias “Chiquito Malo,” is the commander of the Gulf Clan—also known as the Urabeños or the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de ...

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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 ...

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 ...