Euphoria’s third season just wrapped, closing a storyline steeped in the aesthetics and intensities of the criminal underworld along the US-Mexico border. It touches on several issues that are ...

El Salvador’s mass trials of alleged gang members are the latest phase in President Nayib Bukele’s hardline security model.

De la Espriella promises a hard line on Colombia's criminal groups. Also this week: DEA's fentanyl strategy and Fujimori's ...

Voters in this week's presidential runofss in Colombia face two extreme security, drugs. and peace promises in candidates ...

Conservative hardliner Keiko Fujimori is poised to become Peru’s next president, following a chaotic and divisive election.

Social media influencers are playing an increasingly important role in organized crime. Nelson AI helped explain how.

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The Border Command (Comandos de la Frontera – CDF) is a Colombian criminal group that emerged in 2017. It arose from an alliance between dissidents from the former 32nd and 48th Fronts of the ...

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Sebastián Marset was Uruguay’s most famous drug trafficker and the leader of an international network known as the First Uruguayan Cartel (Primer Cartel Uruguayo – PCU). Marset had ties with foreign ...

The Chone Killers have embodied the mutation of Ecuador’s organized crime landscape from low-level street gangs to sophisticated, extremely violent mafia groups. Originally a street gang that joined ...