How does cargo theft work on Central America’s main trade corridor? Managing Editor Deborah Bonello and journalist Owen ...

Cargo theft gangs in Costa Rica use customs data, GPS jammers and fake police stops to hijack trucks. InSight Crime explains how these networks operate.

How Rasquiña built Ecuador’s criminal federation and how its collapse fueled the gang wars driving violence across the ...

Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, Brazil’s 80-year-old president, completed a stunning turnaround to win a fourth presidential term, but with rising criminality and an opposition-controlled Congress, he ...

Haiti’s gangs tighten their grip as elections face further delays. Can the country restore security and democracy amid rising violence?

Haiti’s elections remain on hold as gang violence spreads, criminal control expands, and the country’s return to democracy ...

Inside Viva Berta, where Honduras’ Garífuna communities confront organized crime, criminalization, and threats to their ...

Under President Nayib Bukele, El Salvador has become a popular exemplar for fighting organized crime in Latin America. And throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, leaders are attempting to follow ...

In the three years since President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele opened his famous Terrorism Confinement Center (Centro de Confinamiento de Terrorismo – CECOT), leaders around Latin America have ...

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 ...