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

The killing of Niño Guerrero struck a substantial blow to the gang he helped found: Tren de Aragua. Deborah Bonello and ...

Voters in this week's presidential runofss in Colombia face two extreme security, drugs. and peace promises in candidates ...

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 ...

Social media influencers are playing an increasingly important role in organized crime. Nelson AI helped explain how.

Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, alias “Niño Guerrero,” top leader of the Venezuelan criminal group Tren de Aragua, was ...

“I’m a drug trafficker from the Northeast, my cartel,” raps El Makabelico. “With my AK-47 slung across my chest, I ride alongside El Komander. My souped-up .38 Super, encrusted with diamonds.” Those ...

The Border Command (Comandos de la Frontera – CDF) is a Colombian criminal group that emerged in 2017. It arose from a criminal alliance between dissidents from the former 32nd and 48th Fronts of the ...

The Pure Third Command (Terceiro Comando Puro – TCP) is Brazil’s third largest criminal group and the second most powerful gang in Rio de Janeiro. Its origins can be traced back to a split within the ...

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 ...

Sebastián Marset was Uruguay’s most famous drug trafficker and the leader of an international network known as the First Uruguayan Cartel (Primer Cartel Uruguayo – PCU). Marset had ties with foreign ...

A private jet co-piloted by the winner of a MrBeast YouTube challenge was seized by Paraguayan authorities after more than 250 kilos of premium marijuana were found on board, underscoring a ...