Sebastián Marset was one of South America's most wanted drug traffickers and a major criminal leader before his recent arrest ...

The government's security model for Rosario was seemingly showing results and bringing down homicide rates, but local police ...

InSight Crime analyzes organized crime dynamics driving homicide rates in Latin American and the Caribbean in our annual homicide round-up.

Starts working in the international marijuana trade, receiving large shipments flown from Paraguay by Juan Domingo Viveros Cartes, the uncle of former Paraguay President Horacio Cartes. Marset is ...

US President Donald Trump says the only way to defeat organized crime, drug trafficking, and transnational gangs is by using ...

US military intervention in and near Venezuela could be displacing cocaine trafficking to other parts of the region, notably Guyana, whose new seaports and rapid economic growth have increased its ...

Mainstream media called on our in-depth understanding of the CJNG, El Mencho’s criminal career, and Mexico’s role in the criminal ecosystem.

A lavish narco-funeral in Mexico, why violence is rising in Ecuador despite hard-line security measures, and the regional ...

As International Women’s Day approaches, women continue to be a fundamental part of Latin America’s organized crime groups ...

Authorities at Brazil's Port of Santos are analyzing new intelligence and data to identify how drug traffickers operate and intercept them.

This week on On The Radar: our most in-depth analysis of the fall of “El Mencho,” leader of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG).

How the killing of El Mencho could impact the CJNG, as well as Mexico's criminal future, drawing on lessons from the past.