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.

A wave of violence against traffic authorities in Ecuador shows how criminal groups look to deepen their control over the ...

Director Jeremy McDermott participated in the annual El PAcCTO 2.0 summit in Lima, offering perspectives on the role of civil ...

The recent arrest of Costa Rica’s former security minister and the revelations in his case have shed light on the corruption and drug trafficking networks engulfing the government in what may be the ...

Ongoing killings in marginalized areas of Rosario, Argentina suggest recent security initiatives have merely contained gang ...

The Sinaloa Cartel hacked a top US law enforcement agency and obtained classified information that was later used to ...

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 ...

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El Salvador is the spiritual homeland of Central America’s most notorious street gangs – the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and Barrio 18. For years, these gangs terrorized poor urban neighborhoods across ...

The Sinaloa Cartel is considered the largest and most powerful drug trafficking organization in the Western Hemisphere.

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 ...