A former OFAC compliance chief on what cartel terrorist designations changed for companies operating in Latin America.

Three years into Noboa’s crackdown on Ecuador gangs, killings have fallen but the country remains on track for one of its ...

Alleged Tiguerones leader William Alcívar, alias “Willy,” lives freely in Spain after Ecuador’s extradition bid stalled. He ...

InSight Crime reports from Culiacán two years into the war between Los Chapitos and La Mayiza began, where the violence has ...

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Mexico charged CJNG commander R1 in the murder of Carlos Manzo, exposing a network of 'R's, one tied to influencer Valeria ...

In Honduras, Garífuna face drug traffickers and business interests on their land and organized crime charges for defending it ...

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Coca cultivation in Bolivia reached record levels for the third consecutive year, in an expansion that appears to be driven by global demand for cocaine rather than by the country’s legal coca leaf ...

Shield of the Americas governments pledged to sanction anyone supporting Tren de Aragua, the Sinaloa Cartel and 22 other criminal groups. Also on the Radar: prosecutors say the PCC controls São Paulo ...

El Salvador is the spiritual homeland of Central America’s most notorious street gangs – the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and Barrio 18. For years, these gangs terrorized poor urban neighborhoods across ...

The Tiguerones, the Ecuadorian criminal group, was added to the US State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) this month. But although the designations expand the US ...