Before fentanyl reaches the streets, a wide range of actors influence its movement across Mexico and into the United States, from precursor chemical suppliers and independent clandestine producers to ...

The appointment of Gabriel Estuardo García Luna as Guatemala’s new attorney general could put the brakes on a period of extreme judicial backsliding, though the top prosecutor inherits a hollowed-out ...

InSight Crime explores the implications of the Spain Record Cocaine Seizure and what it means for drug trafficking patterns ...

From alleged narco-politicians to traffickers seeking to dominate the Caribbean coast, several high-profile Costa Rican ...

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US strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the capture of former Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro have rewritten the rules of the decades-long “war on drugs.” But while certain ...

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 ...

The police boat is dwarfed by the massive cargo ships it passes floating in the channel of Brazil’s Santos port. A dozen giant cranes play Tetris with containers overhead, stacking them high on each ...

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 ...

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 ...

The deadly US alleged drug boat strikes in international waters mark a quantum leap and an aggressive escalation in US counternarcotics policy, in which drug trafficking is treated as a national ...

The endless growth of the global cocaine trade and the game of whack-a-mole to stop it has propelled innovation and experimentation from drug trafficking organizations to get their product out into ...