Maduro's unprecedented arrest shook Venezuela’s power structures—both legal and illegal. We’ve been tracking the impacts.

Reports that an armed attack on the Guatemala-Honduras border was linked to the Lorenzanas trafficking network illustrate the resilience of family clans in the Central American drug trade. The ...

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. With a regular ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...