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 ...
Who is winning the drug war – governments or drugs? Is Mexico’s ruling party cracking under pressure from President Trump and organized crime? What is in the crosshairs of the latest OFAC sanctions ...
An anti-gang operation that became an attack on rural communities. In July 2024, the Tren del Llano gang attacked a voting center to protest Venezuela’s stolen election. The Chavista regime responded ...
Social media influencers are playing an increasingly important role in organized crime. The kidnapping of social media star Nicole Pardo earlier this year created headlines beyond Mexico, as readers ...
Conservative hardliner Keiko Fujimori is poised to become Peru’s next president, following a chaotic and divisive election that has underscored the challenges she faces in taming a longstanding ...
The extraditions to the United States of key members of the Choneros is a litmus test for Ecuador’s kingpin strategy of culling criminal organizations from the top down. Among those on the list for ...
While the series captures surface-level dynamics of these illicit economies, it often ignores the complexity of criminal operations.