A recent series of attacks using improvised explosive devices points to a generalization of warfare tactics among criminal ...

InSight Crime co-director Steven Dudley appeared on the popular Mexican TV show Largo Aliento to discuss fentanyl and ...

Record-breaking cocaine seizures in Portugal in 2024 have cemented the country’s status as a crucial axis in drug trafficking ...

Venezuela’s regime has distributed weapons to state workers and militias, potentially aiming to expand the country’s civilian ...

Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Wilexis Acevedo was for a long time one of Venezuela’s ...

Trinidad and Tobago has extended a state of emergency to counter record homicides. But the measure, a strategy for ...

Haiti’s gangs caused thousands of deaths and the displacement of over a million people in the past year, according to the UN, ...

A year after Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared war on organized crime, the country is grappling with a surge in ...

The criminal war in northeast Colombia has escalated, as intense fighting between two Colombian guerrilla groups erupted in ...

Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) A poster put up by the Comandos de la Frontera (Border ...

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The Ecuadorian coastal province El Oro has emerged as a new hotspot for violence, as splintering criminal groups compete for control of the region’s lucrative criminal economies.