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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Rotela Clan is a criminal group run by the Rotela family in Paraguay. It was originally specialized in the microtrafficking of crack in poorer neighborhoods of Asunción and Concepción, but has since ...

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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 ...

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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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 ...