A police operation in Brazil revealed how the Venezuelan-born gang Tren de Aragua has established presence in the country.

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

This week's On the Radar looks at the DEA and Pentagon assessments concluding that US airstrikes haven't dented the cocaine ...

Maduro's unprecedented arrest shook Venezuela’s power structures—both legal and illegal. We’ve been tracking the impacts.

Reports that an armed attack on the Guatemala-Honduras border was linked to the Lorenzanas trafficking network illustrate the resilience of family clans in the Central American drug trade. The ...

For four decades, Ismael Zambada García alias “El Mayo,” who was just sentenced to life in prison without parole in the United States, was the ghost of Mexican drug trafficking. With a regular ...

InSight Crime's Deborah Bonello and Victoria Dittmar break down how El Mayo's sentencing won't end the war in Sinaloa and ...

Nearly a year after Brazil’s biggest-ever banking fraud scandal was exposed, authorities are only beginning to understand its ...

The US State Department has added the Chone Killers in Ecuador to its list of foreign terrorist organizations operating across Latin America. InSight Crime Managing Editor Deborah Bonello discusses ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, the US Department of Justice released a bombshell indictment charging sitting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior members of his government with “narco-terrorism” and ...