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?

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

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 recent police operation in northern Brazil has revealed how the Venezuelan-born gang Tren de Aragua has established a presence in the country and adapted its model of criminal expansion through ...

Tren de Aragua's takeover of Lima's sex trade left a trail of dead women whose murders sent a chilling message to those remaining.

The United Nations has finally published its data on coca cultivation in Colombia in 2024, as drug crop plantations expanded, yet concentrated in certain territories, offering the incoming president ...

Los Lorenzana eran una familia tradicional dedicada al contrabando que, con el tiempo, se involucró en el lucrativo negocio del narcotráfico. Con base en la frontera de Guatemala con Honduras, el ...

Since they began in September 2025, the US strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific have been marked by their opacity. With a regular donation from $50, or a single donation ...

On April 29, US prosecutors in the Southern District of New York announced an explosive set of charges against Rubén Rocha Moya, the current governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, for alleged ties to the ...

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Despite the widespread use of states of emergency, the increasingly militarized response to organized crime, and the growth of criminal economies, the murder rate in 2025 across Latin America and the ...