As the trial of Sergio Roberto de Carvalho, dubbed Brazil’s version of “Pablo Escobar,” gets underway in Belgium, the charges ...

President Gustavo Petro has intensified operations against Iván Mordisco, Colombia’s most wanted criminal, yet he continues ...

This week’s On the Radar highlights Haiti’s latest massacre, Brazil’s "Pablo Escobar," and the legal troubles of Venezuela’s ...

InSight Crime maps the complex criminal dynamics at play in the Colombia-Ecuador border region, one of the most important ...

Join us for On the Radar, as we examine the implications of recent drug-related events in Colombia and Venezuela.

Dive into the ties between a Paraguayan congressman Erico Galeano and Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset.

Read about the latest phase of Ecuador's war on gangs, featuring curfews, airstrikes, and international cooperation on crime.

In Rio de Janeiro, family clans managing informal lotteries gain criminal influence through samba schools at the heart of ...

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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For the last two years, Venezuelan states along the Colombian border have experienced firsthand the death and destruction of a war they had spent half a century observing from a distance. *This ...

For three days in July 2021, the Caracas neighborhood of Cota 905 became an urban warzone. Just blocks away from Venezuela’s Miraflores presidential palace, over 3,000 police and military backed by ...