A new Netflix series centered on two pilots traveling aboard a cocaine-laden airplane has revived a Latin America-to-Europe trafficking case.

The US issued new sanctions against some leaders of the Jalisco Cartel, singling out one member for their alleged role in a ...

The debate over the effectiveness of anti-money laundering policies in Argentina has intensified in recent years.

Peru doubled the bounty for crime boss “El Monstruo”, making him its most wanted criminal and highlighting growing extortion ...

Punitive measures are unlikely to advance efforts to undercut the organized crime groups trafficking illicit fentanyl from ...

Theories abound around the attempted assassination of presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay — none supported by solid ...

The CJNG is headed by alias "El Mencho," a feared but mysterious leader. The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) is a transnational criminal group that emerged from ...

At least 121,695 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2024, putting the median homicide rate at around 20.2 per 100,000 people, about the same rate as 2023. The already ...

The recent arrest of Albanian cocaine trafficker Dritan Gjika in the United Arab Emirates after more than a decade of ...

A new constitutional amendment allows the extradition of Costa Rican nationals for international drug trafficking and ...

Community leaders in Colombia’s Putumayo department have historically supported coca substitution programs as part of peace processes aimed at resolving the country’s long-running civil conflict. But ...

Countries across Latin America and the Caribbean continued to experience high murder rates in 2022, as cocaine production reached new heights, the fragmentation of gangs continued, and the flow of ...