For nearly two decades, Juan Carlos Valencia González built power inside Mexico’s Jalisco Cartel while staying almost invisible to the public. The US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) recently ...

United Nations data on coca cultivation in Colombia in 2024, showed drug crop plantations expanded while concentrating in ...

The United States is upping the multimillion-dollar rewards it has for the remaining leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel’s Chapitos ...

The US State Department has added the Chone Killers gang in Ecuador to its list of foreign terrorist designations.

While the series captures surface-level dynamics of these illicit economies, it often ignores the complexity of criminal operations.

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

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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 ...

As the United States drags the drug war back in time, traffickers are leaping forward, creating new ways of disguising and moving cocaine while weaving sophisticated global networks to reach new ...

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 ...

Drug trafficking out of Venezuela predates Nicolás Maduro and will long outlive him. The question is whether the cocaine trade will continue to be managed and regulated by the Chavista regime, or ...