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 ...

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 ...

A border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana is turning violent after attacks on Guyanese security forces. Could the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro be using criminal gangs to provoke ...

In 2025, Colombia faced levels of violence not seen in years, driven by clashes among criminal groups that have strengthened their military power and territorial control in areas critical to illegal ...

Authorities in Costa Rica are on high alert after uncovering the so-called South Caribbean Cartel, reportedly the country’s first transnational criminal organization, which may have severe ...

THE LATEST: The US launched a strike in the Caribbean on June 21, 2026, killing two people immediately and leaving six survivors. In May, the US military launched seven strikes, killing 19 people.

La Línea is one of the top criminal forces in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, engaging in everything from migrant smuggling to drug trafficking. Its home base is Ciudad Juárez, from which it projects ...