A massacre inside Ecuador’s largest and most violent prison is a sign that the country’s criminal organizations are atomizing rapidly pace as the government’s security crackdown stalls.

A rift within the Second Marquetalia underscores the fragility of alliances among illegal groups and highlights the ...

Record-breaking cocaine seizures in the Dominican Republic highlight the resurgence of the Caribbean as a major trafficking ...

Gangs in Haiti are exploiting political turmoil to tighten their grip on the country, paralyzing domestic and international ...

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The assassination of a police informant in São Paulo’s main international airport has exposed flaws in Brazil's witness ...

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The arrest of a high-ranking Tren de Aragua member is a significant blow to its Colombia operations and offers further proof ...

Foreign criminal groups in Latin America have taken on a new dimension in the last decade, with European networks directly ...

High-ranking officials from the former government of President Danilo Medina in the Dominican Republic continue… InSight Crime’s 2022 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up InSight Crime reviews Latin America and ...

The Red Command (Comando Vermelho – CV) is Brazil’s oldest criminal group. Created in a Rio de Janeiro prison in the 1970s as a self-protection group for prisoners, it started out with low-level ...