An international manhunt is underway to capture a former state security chief for allegedly colluding with a Jalisco Cartel ...

Repeated and widely publicized government actions against illegal miners in Amazonas state have only deepened the trade's ...

Honduras is among the most dangerous places in the world to defend the land and natural resources. This report analyzes ...

Extortion is rising and contract killings are up, but Peru’s lawmakers are making matters worse with new laws, says a new ...

A trend of Ecuadorian criminal leaders turning up in neighboring Colombia underscores the country's role as both a refuge and ...

An alleged cattle fraud in Uruguay underlines the financial damage these organized criminal networks can inflict.

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What we can learn from the war of words between Mexico’s president and the lawyer for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated, and most violent organized criminal groups. These organizations have drawn from Mexico’s long history of smuggling and its ...

InSight Crime dives into our tenth annual homicide round-up, analyzing the organized crime dynamics behind the violence in each country.

The K-drugs market keeps booming in Brazil despite alleged attempts by the First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) to ban it, and the nature of the K-drugs business means that the ...