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.

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

El Salvador’s mass trials of alleged gang members are the latest phase in President Nayib Bukele’s hardline security model.

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 ...

De la Espriella promises a hard line on Colombia's criminal groups. Also this week: DEA's fentanyl strategy and Fujimori's ...

Conservative hardliner Keiko Fujimori is poised to become Peru’s next president, following a chaotic and divisive election.

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

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 ...

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 ...

El Mencho is dead. The Sinaloa Cartel, as we once knew it, is gone. The Chapitos are cooperating with US authorities. Mexico’s criminal landscape is entering a new phase — one defined by fragmented ...