InSight Crime's Deborah Bonello and Victoria Dittmar break down how El Mayo's sentencing won't end the war in Sinaloa and ...

The First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) is Brazil’s largest and most powerful criminal organization, with operations in more than 20 countries. In 2026, the group continued ...

Nearly a year after Brazil’s biggest-ever banking fraud scandal was exposed, authorities are only beginning to understand its ...

Alleged members of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) circulated a video on social media threatening the Unión Tepito and the Tláhuac Cartel, two criminal ...

At the height of its power, the Familia Michoacana’s brutal tactics, strong base of operations and pseudo-religious ideology made it a formidable operation and a point of fascination for outsiders.

United Nations data on coca cultivation in Colombia in 2024, showed drug crop plantations expanded while concentrating in ...

Criminal actors in Mexico are becoming more professional, driving up murder rates each year Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated, and most violent organized criminal ...

Following the death of CJNG leader “El Mencho” in a February 2026 military operation, US authorities have named his stepson, Juan Carlos Valencia González, alias “El 03,” as the group’s new leader.

Guatemala’s criminal organizations are among the most sophisticated in Central America. Some of them have been in operation for decades. They include former members of the military, intelligence ...

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Authorities in Mexico have made a high-profile arrest just as they mount an international manhunt to capture a former security official accused of colluding with organized crime, yet the timing of the ...

Alleged members of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) circulated a video on social media threatening the Unión Tepito and the Tláhuac Cartel, two criminal ...