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

The US State Department has added the Chone Killers gang in Ecuador to its list of foreign terrorist designations.

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 ...

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

Alleged members of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) circulated a video on social media threatening the Unión Tepito and the Tláhuac Cartel, two criminal ...

While the series captures surface-level dynamics of these illicit economies, it often ignores the complexity of criminal operations.

At the height of its power, the Familia Michoacana’s brutal tactics, strong base of operations and pseudo-religious ideology made it a formidable operation and a point of fascination for outsiders.

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Renat Dassae, alias “El Daza,” was arrested for the fourth time in the state of Tlaxcala. He is an alleged leader of UJ40, a powerful cell linked to La Unión Tepito. El Daza is accused of involvement ...

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Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego, alias “Chiquito Malo,” is the commander of the Gulf Clan—also known as the Urabeños or the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de ...

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 ...