Participants discussed the impacts of criminal activities on economies across Latin America and the Caribbean. They argued ...

US anti-drug assistance to Colombia is fundamental and it will benefit no one to cut resources used to fight the cocaine ...

Bolivia's acute economic crisis could limit the government’s ability to tackle organized crime and push more people into ...

This week, we cover a mass jailbreak in Guatemala that took the authorities months to discover, and Tren de Aragua leader ...

InSight Crime reports from the state of Tennessee, where national conflicts and criminal dynamics are playing out on a local stage.

In Tennessee, the narrative around the Tren de Aragua reflects more rhetoric and alarmism than concrete evidence of its ...

While the business of smuggling migrants may be transforming, there are still large numbers of migrants exposed to criminal ...

On the Radar focuses on allegedly corrupt officials and business people in Guayana, Costa Rica, and Argentina this week.

The US government’s new sanctions against Venezuela’s so-called “Cartel of the Suns” incorrectly portray it as a hierarchical, ideologically driven drug trafficking organization rather than a ...

A wave of drone strikes has reportedly killed hundreds of alleged gang members in Port-au-Prince and temporarily shaken Haiti’s criminal landscape, but legal concerns and mounting civilian casualties ...

Organized crime — particularly cocaine trafficking — has been the main driver of homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade, according to data compiled by InSight Crime. While ...

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 ...