Criminal networks battling over drug routes and markets have made the northeastern state of Ceará into one of Brazil's ...

InSight Crime's co-director Steven Dudley and managing editor Deborah Bonello discuss President Trump's latest directive, and why it fundamentally misunderstands the region's criminal landscape.

A recently appointed security official in the Trump administration once led a think tank that published false reports about ...

Drug traffickers today realize that their best protection is not a private army but anonymity. This is the story of “Memo Fantasma” or “Will the Ghost,” who started life in the Medellín Cartel, funded ...

In Ciudad Juárez, an old criminal guard is being replaced by a new one amid a changing criminal economy on the US-Mexico ...

The alleged killing of a guerrilla commander near the Colombia-Venezuela border suggests that a fragile criminal alliance has ...

Arms trafficking presents complex challenges to authorities around Latin America and the Caribbean, but combating these ...

The US government’s new sanctions against Venezuela’s Cartel of the Suns incorrectly portray it as a hierarchical drug ...

The digital recruitment of children into criminal organizations throughout Latin America is booming, but government responses ...

This is the story of alias “Fito,” one of Ecuador’s top crime bosses and the leader of the powerful criminal group, the Choneros.

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater USA, is pitching his companies as solutions to insecurity and organized crime across Latin America.

Calls for tougher actions to halt cattle trafficking are growing amid concerns over the spread of the screwworm parasite in ...