A former OFAC compliance chief on what cartel terrorist designations changed for companies operating in Latin America.

Three years into Noboa’s crackdown on Ecuador gangs, killings have fallen but the country remains on track for one of its ...

Alleged Tiguerones leader William Alcívar, alias “Willy,” lives freely in Spain after Ecuador’s extradition bid stalled. He ...

InSight Crime reports from Culiacán two years into the war between Los Chapitos and La Mayiza began, where the violence has ...

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A rise in migrant smuggling and synthetic drug trafficking could explain a recent spike in homicides in Ciudad Juárez, a place still struggling to escape a cycle of violence that began during the ...

In March 2019, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro created a new wing of the Bolivarian Revolution political movement, the Peace Defender Squads (Cuadrillas Defensoras de la Paz). The squads, known by ...

Over Carnival weekend, as families crowded into Maracaibo’s small, air-conditioned shops, gunmen got off their motorbikes, entered a butcher’s shop, and without uttering a word, indiscriminately fired ...

In 2020, the US Department of Justice released a bombshell indictment charging sitting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior members of his government with “narco-terrorism” and ...

Colombia is now producing more cocaine than ever before, just as a new chapter in the country’s criminal history begins and the government tries to implement a peace agreement with Marxist rebels. The ...