United Nations data on coca cultivation in Colombia in 2024, showed drug crop plantations expanded while concentrating in ...

Renat Dassae, alias “El Daza,” was arrested for the fourth time in the state of Tlaxcala. He is an alleged leader of UJ40, a powerful cell linked to La Unión Tepito. El Daza is accused of involvement ...

The United States is upping the multimillion-dollar rewards it has for the remaining leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel’s Chapitos ...

The US State Department has added the Chone Killers gang in Ecuador to its list of foreign terrorist designations.

While the series captures surface-level dynamics of these illicit economies, it often ignores the complexity of criminal operations.

El Salvador’s mass trials of alleged gang members are the latest phase in President Nayib Bukele’s hardline security model.

Conservative hardliner Keiko Fujimori is poised to become Peru’s next president, following a chaotic and divisive election.

De la Espriella promises a hard line on Colombia's criminal groups. Also this week: DEA's fentanyl strategy and Fujimori's ...

The killing of Hector Guerrero Flores, also known as Niño Guerrero, by US and Venezuelan forces struck a substantial blow to the gang he helped found: Tren de Aragua. Deborah Bonello, managing editor ...

As the United States drags the drug war back in time, traffickers are leaping forward, creating new ways of disguising and moving cocaine while weaving sophisticated global networks to reach new ...

Ecuador’s armed forces, backed by the United States military, conducted airstrikes on camps on March 6 that they claim belonged to “narco-terrorist” groups along the country’s northern border with ...

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 ...