The arrest of a high-ranking Tren de Aragua member is a significant blow to its Colombia operations and offers further proof ...

The assassination of a police informant in São Paulo’s main international airport has exposed serious flaws in Brazil's ...

Each night at Colombia’s Cúcuta border city, illegal dirt tracks connecting the city to Venezuela become highways for ...

InSight Crime has won the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize in the category of investigative journalism for the text ...

Iván Velásquez is a soft-spoken Colombian judge who has spent his entire career taking on presidents. In this podcast, we ...

Foreign criminal groups in Latin America have taken on a new dimension in the last decade, with European networks directly ...

The Red Command (Comando Vermelho – CV) is Brazil’s oldest criminal group. Created in a Rio de Janeiro prison in the 1970s as a self-protection group for prisoners, it started out with low-level ...

A massive seizure of cocaine precursor at Chile’s Arica port underscores its growing role as a trafficking hotspot for ...

Earnings from Illegally extracted gold in Peru have soared to record levels, fueling criminal organizations amid ongoing ...

The intervention in another Venezuelan prison under criminal leaders' control highlights the failure of President Nicolás ...

The arrest of a prominent Venezuelan oil broker in the United States may signal turbulent times ahead for Nicolás Maduro’s ...

The "canteen mafia," which controlled food distribution in Rio de Janeiro's prisons, highlights the presence of criminal ...