As International Women’s Day approaches, women continue to be a fundamental part of Latin America’s organized crime groups ...

A lavish narco-funeral in Mexico, why violence is rising in Ecuador despite hard-line security measures, and the regional ...

How the killing of El Mencho could impact the CJNG, as well as Mexico's criminal future, drawing on lessons from the past.

Mainstream media called on our in-depth understanding of the CJNG, El Mencho’s criminal career, and Mexico’s role in the criminal ecosystem.

Today, the violence is the result of the rapid growth of the CJNG, which emerged in 2010 after the fragmentation of the Sinaloa and Milenio cartels. Since then, the group has spent years developing a ...

Authorities at Brazil's Port of Santos are analyzing new intelligence and data to identify how drug traffickers operate and intercept them.

InSight Crime explores the drug trafficking dynamics in Venezuela, the nature of the Cartel of the Suns, and its future without Maduro.

InSight Crime outlines the five CJNG hotspots to keep an eye on in Mexico following the high-profile killing of El Mencho.

The ELN has used its partnership with Venezuelan authorities to consolidate control along the Colombia-Venezuela border.

The killing of CJNG leader El Mencho sparked violence across Mexico, but what does history teach us about the killing of cartel leaders?

For members of Venezuela’s armed forces, drug trafficking, illegal mining, and other criminal rents have become a parallel source of income.

The state-embedded drug trafficking structure in Venezuela is largely intact, although the conditions under which it operates have shifted.