With power in Venezuela shifting, the future of the ELN's relationship with the Venezuelan government remains in question.

This week: violent gang reprisals in Guatemala, a symbolic push for justice in Colombia, and mounting pressure on Mexico from ...

This week, we analyze the ripples of recent US operations in the Caribbean and Venezuela across the region. That includes ...

How will Maduro's removal impact Venezuela's criminal landscape and groups, and the criminality embedded in its current ...

InSight Crime celebrated our tenth edition of our GameChanger series, looking back over the last decade of organized crime in ...

The murder of renowned Indigenous activist and environmental defender Berta Cáceres in Honduras in 2016 was an organized criminal operation.

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Following the demobilization of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – FARC) in 2016, dissident factions of the group that formed before and after the ...

Samark López Bello is a Venezuelan businessman identified as an alleged frontman for Tareck El Aissami, who was detained in Venezuela for his alleged role in the corruption scheme known as ...

Record cocaine production and high demand for the drug contributed to criminal violence across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2023, as traffickers established new routes to bypass increasing ...

Venezuela’s organized crime groups and networks have evolved rapidly over the last decade, exploiting social and political crises that have wracked the country while benefiting from a criminally ...

In 2020, the US Department of Justice released a bombshell indictment charging sitting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior members of his government with “narco-terrorism” and ...