This week’s On the Radar highlights Haiti’s latest massacre, Brazil’s "Pablo Escobar," and the legal troubles of Venezuela’s ...

President Gustavo Petro has intensified operations against Iván Mordisco, Colombia’s most wanted criminal, yet he continues ...

Read about the latest phase of Ecuador's war on gangs, featuring curfews, airstrikes, and international cooperation on crime.

Dive into the ties between a Paraguayan congressman Erico Galeano and Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset.

Join us for On the Radar, as we examine the implications of recent drug-related events in Colombia and Venezuela.

InSight Crime maps the complex criminal dynamics at play in the Colombia-Ecuador border region, one of the most important ...

In Rio de Janeiro, family clans managing informal lotteries gain criminal influence through samba schools at the heart of ...

Peru's chronic inability to form a stable government has left state institutions feckless in the face of an alarming ...

Negotiating peace with the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) lay at the heart of Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s election campaign and his Total Peace (Paz Total) ...

Even as the infamy of the Tren de Aragua grows in the Americas, its cohesion and organization are weakening. The assertion by the regime of Nicolás Maduro that Tren de Aragua has been wiped out in ...

Just after 5 p.m. on May 13, 2025, shots rang out along the Cuyuní River, as troops from the Guyana Defense Force (GDF) made their way between the towns of Eteringbang and Makapa, along the broad ...

Organized crime — particularly cocaine trafficking — has been the main driver of homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade, according to data compiled by InSight Crime. While ...