A wave of drone strikes has temporarily shaken Haiti’s criminal landscape, but questions remain about the strategy’s long-term effectiveness.

Peru doubled the bounty for crime boss “El Monstruo”, making him its most wanted criminal and highlighting growing extortion ...

A new Netflix series centered on two pilots traveling aboard a cocaine-laden airplane has revived a Latin America-to-Europe trafficking case.

The US issued new sanctions against some leaders of the Jalisco Cartel, singling out one member for their alleged role in a ...

The debate over the effectiveness of anti-money laundering policies in Argentina has intensified in recent years.

Punitive measures are unlikely to advance efforts to undercut the organized crime groups trafficking illicit fentanyl from ...

Theories abound around the attempted assassination of presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay — none supported by solid ...

A new constitutional amendment allows the extradition of Costa Rican nationals for international drug trafficking and ...

The recent arrest of Albanian cocaine trafficker Dritan Gjika in the United Arab Emirates after more than a decade of operating out of Ecuador suggests that the Gulf state, a hub for international ...

A border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana is turning violent after attacks on Guyanese security forces. Could the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro be using criminal gangs to provoke ...

Ecuador. Ecuador registered a record seizure of 22 tons of cocaine in January 2024, the biggest of the year in Latin America and the Caribbean and one of the largest cocaine seizures ever. Coming from ...

Organized crime — particularly cocaine trafficking — has been the main driver of homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade, according to data compiled by InSight Crime. While ...