Following El Mencho’s death, the CJNG faces a new era of succession and potential fragmentation. Learn who could lead the cartel and its criminal operations in Mexico.

How football fuels Paraguay’s drug trade, the latest extradition request from Mexico to the US, and what the latest cocaine ...

In attempting to target gang leadership, Guatemala's government instead exposed its limited capacity to do so.

Which Latin American countries collaborate with the US on anti-narcotics? Consult this map for a look at the ever-evolving web of alliances in the region.

What does the future hold for the United States' relationship with Honduras? What can we deduct about Mexico's crime wars from a mass kidnapping? And will a high-level political arrest in Ecuador help ...

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At least 121,695 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2024, putting the median homicide rate at around 20.2 per 100,000 people, about the same rate as 2023. The already ...

Presidents Trump and Petro meet at the White House, Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva warns of AI's potential to be weaponized by organized crime for elections, and Costa Rica's president-elect Laura ...

Countries across Latin America and the Caribbean continued to experience high murder rates in 2022, as cocaine production reached new heights, the fragmentation of gangs continued, and the flow of ...

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 ...

In March 2019, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro created a new wing of the Bolivarian Revolution political movement, the Peace Defender Squads (Cuadrillas Defensoras de la Paz). The squads, known by ...