A former OFAC compliance chief on what cartel terrorist designations changed for companies operating in Latin America.

Three years into Noboa’s crackdown on Ecuador gangs, killings have fallen but the country remains on track for one of its ...

Alleged Tiguerones leader William Alcívar, alias “Willy,” lives freely in Spain after Ecuador’s extradition bid stalled. He ...

Mexico charged CJNG commander R1 in the murder of Carlos Manzo, exposing a network of 'R's, one tied to influencer Valeria ...

InSight Crime reports from Culiacán two years into the war between Los Chapitos and La Mayiza began, where the violence has ...

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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 ...

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Emerging from the ashes of Colombia’s bloody paramilitary counter-insurgency in the mid-2000s came a new type of criminal network Colombia’s authorities christened “bandas criminales” (BACRIM) or ...

The deadly US alleged drug boat strikes in international waters mark a quantum leap and an aggressive escalation in US counternarcotics policy, in which drug trafficking is treated as a national ...