InSight Crime explores the implications of the Spain Record Cocaine Seizure and what it means for drug trafficking patterns ...

The Gaitanistas, also known as the Gulf Clan, Urabeños, and Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia – AGC), emerged from the ashes of Colombia’s paramilitary ...

The Shottas are one of the biggest gangs in Colombia's port city of Buenaventura. It gained notoriety from its rivalry with the Spartans.

From alleged narco-politicians to traffickers seeking to dominate the Caribbean coast, several high-profile Costa Rican ...

See our map showing where and when US strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific happened.

The arrest of several influencers in Brazil shows how social media allows for the laundering of the profits of criminal ...

Carmen, Fernanda, Katherine, Lucia, Liliana, Marcela, Paulina, and Roxi* have lived in constant fear since 2019 — fear of being extorted, assaulted, murdered, or disappeared by Tren de Aragua, the ...

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US prosecutors have outlined a staggering system of criminal governance in an explosive indictment against the sitting governor of Mexico’s Sinaloa state for alleged links to the… In July 2024, ...

In 2013, Nicolás Maduro became president of Venezuela following the death of his charismatic predecessor Hugo Chávez. Since then, the country’s cocaine trade has undergone revolutionary changes. Today ...

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El Clan del Golfo, también conocido como Autodefensas Gaitanistas de Colombia (AGC) y Urabeños, surgió de las cenizas del movimiento paramilitar colombiano y se convirtió en una fuerza criminal con ...