President Trump’s administration has made the fight against drug trafficking the premise for militarized, punitive action both at home and abroad. At home, it has inflated the threat represented by ...

For four decades, Ismael Zambada García alias “El Mayo,” who was just sentenced to life in prison without parole in the United States, was the ghost of Mexican drug trafficking. Keep up to date on the ...

InSight Crime's Deborah Bonello and Victoria Dittmar break down how El Mayo's sentencing won't end the war in Sinaloa and ...

Nearly a year after Brazil’s biggest-ever banking fraud scandal was exposed, authorities are only beginning to understand its ...

Larry Changa will be tried in Chile, in what could be the final chapter for one of the three founding members of Tren de ...

Earlier this month, Costa Rican authorities intercepted a fishing boat off Golfito, Puntarenas, hauling 560 kilos of cocaine dissolved into liquids and hidden in plastic barrels, along with another 95 ...

Following the death of CJNG leader “El Mencho” in a February 2026 military operation, US authorities have named his stepson, Juan Carlos Valencia González, alias “El 03,” as the group’s new leader.

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 ...

El Salvador’s mass trials of alleged gang members are the latest phase in President Nayib Bukele’s hardline security model, aimed at locking in the dismantling of MS13 and Barrio 18 while processing a ...

On April 29, US prosecutors in the Southern District of New York announced an explosive set of charges against Rubén Rocha Moya, the current governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state, for alleged ties to the ...

Over the past decade, fentanyl has quietly reshaped drug markets in northern Mexico. As criminal organizations in the country became major producers and exporters of the synthetic opioid to the United ...

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 ...