The Monster explores forced disappearances in Mexico through the story of a father searching for his missing son ...

Colombia just became the 19th member of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition—better known as Shield of the Americas—days ...

Heraclio Guerrero Martínez, alias "Tío Lako," remains a key figure in the CJNG after escaping a military raid in Michoacán, ...

Carmen, Fernanda, Katherine, Lucia, Liliana, Marcela, Paulina, and Roxi* have lived in constant fear since 2019 — fear of being extorted, assaulted, murdered, or disappeared by Tren de Aragua, the ...

The US is planning ground operations in Latin America as part of its war on drugs. This and more in this week's On the Radar.

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

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

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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 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 ...