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Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, leaders are attempting to follow the Bukele playbook. Is it working?

This week, the US's new "cartel coalition," the arrest of CJNG members in Europe, and a border operation by Brazil and Bolivia.

The Sinaloa Cartel has long ruled the drug trade in the Western hemisphere. But now, it’s tearing itself apart. Since July 2024, two of the group’s most powerful factions have been locked in a brutal ...

A mother searches for three missing children amid the wreckage of decades of armed conflict in Buenaventura, Colombia.

The Guerreros Unidos are a splinter group of the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO) based in central Mexico. The group is dedicated mainly to extortion and kidnapping but also sends drugs to the United ...

The Red Command (Comando Vermelho – CV) is Brazil’s oldest criminal group. Created in a Rio de Janeiro prison in the 1970s as a self-protection group for prisoners, it started out with low-level ...

The National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) is Colombia’s last remaining insurgent group and one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Latin America. Its expansion ...

The United States filed charges against five alleged senior figures in the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) for drug trafficking, weapons offenses, and fraud.

Ismael Zambada Garcia, alias “El Mayo,” was the leader of a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. Along with Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias “El Chapo,” El Mayo is one of the most storied drug traffickers in ...

The Gulf Cartel is one of Mexico’s oldest criminal groups, but it no longer operates as a unified organization. It is divided into rival factions that have lost territory and influence, although they ...

The Shining Path or the Militarized Communist Party of Peru (Militarizado Partido Comunista de Peru – MPCP) is the last remnant of Peru’s guerrilla movement from the end of the 20th Century. Although ...