The First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) is Brazil’s largest and most powerful criminal organization, with operations in more than 20 countries. In 2026, the group continued ...

Almost a year after an investigation into Brazil’s biggest-ever banking fraud scandal, authorities are only now beginning to understand the full extent of the money laundering, political corruption, ...

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.

For nearly two decades, Juan Carlos Valencia González built power inside Mexico’s Jalisco Cartel while staying almost invisible to the public. The US National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) recently ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, the US Department of Justice released a bombshell indictment charging sitting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior members of his government with “narco-terrorism” and ...