This week shows contradictions in US policy, with Trump fighting the drug war with one hand and doing deals with traffickers ...

A plea agreement made by a top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel's Chapitos faction raises fresh questions about the kidnapping of ...

US President Donald Trump’s plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández belie the evidence used to ...

Ecuador marked two years in office by trumpeting results of its anti-crime policies. But its claims don’t show the full ...

Join InSight Crime and EAFIT University experts for a panel unveiling the findings of our new report: Peace Never Had a ...

On a hazy afternoon in May 2021, Daniel Gonzalez, alias “Rafael Arocho,” sped through Pasadena in a white Lexus packed with about $600,000 in cash — drug profits bound for a handoff at a San Gabriel ...

Authorities in Costa Rica claim to have dismantled the so-called South Caribbean Cartel, the country's first transnational crime group.

A wave of drone strikes has reportedly killed hundreds of alleged gang members in Port-au-Prince and temporarily shaken Haiti’s criminal landscape, but legal concerns and mounting civilian casualties ...

At least 121,695 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2024, putting the median homicide rate at around 20.2 per 100,000 people, about the same rate as 2023. The already ...

Coca crops and cocaine production in Colombia increased during 2023, as the government has stopped forced eradication efforts and concentrated on seizures to fight drug trafficking. Coca cultivation ...

Violence against civilians in Colombia is rising amid the various crises facing the government’s Total Peace policy and the strengthening of armed and criminal groups. Between January and May 2024, ...

Riding up the Quito River, trees claw their way to the edges of the riverbanks, forming an impenetrable forest wall lining the water. Then, suddenly, the world opens. The trees that walled us in have ...