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Bolivia Drug Mules Cheating Controls with Liquid Cocaine: Official
Officials in Bolivia say drug mules are increasingly ingesting liquid cocaine in an effort to avoid detection during transport, a tactic that has the potential to grow in use as drug traffickers...
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Top 3 Security Challenges Facing Honduras' Next President
As leader of the world's most dangerous nation, Honduras' next president will face a unique set of security challenges. His response to these may determine whether the country begins to make a...
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Extradition, Maras and Police: Ex Honduras Minister Looks at the Future
A former security minister of Honduras tells InSight Crime the country is set to begin extraditing criminals, expediting police reform and taking a hard-line against the country's gangs under the...
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'Lord of War' Arrest Shines Light on Colombia Arms Trade
Police in Colombia have captured an arms dealer whose operations reached across continents and whose criminal contacts spanned the spectrum of Colombian armed groups. According to police, Gustavo...
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Criminal Onslaught Sees Mexico Mining Companies Take to the Skies
Mining companies in Mexico are now using aircraft to move their products and personnel and ramping up investment in security in order to avoid being robbed and extorted by organized crime, in the...
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Impunity Reigns in Latin America's Org Crime Hotspots: HRW
Human Rights Watch's annual global report underscores how impunity for both criminal groups and corrupt and abusive state institutions is one of the main obstacles to improving citizen security in the...
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Texis Cartel Conviction Strikes Blow Against Impunity in El Salvador
Eight drug traffickers with links to the Texis Cartel have been convicted after months of their case being pushed around El Salvador's justice system, in the first sign that the impunity the group has...
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Lessons for Mexico from Colombia: Vigilantes, Paramilitaries and Proxies
Although the desire to recover control of regions dominated by Mexico’s Knights Templar is shared by both the state and self-defense forces, it is not clear whether the latter are linked to criminal...
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Recordings Spark Gang Truce Controversy in El Salvador
The release of recordings and documents purporting to show how the El Salvador government paid off gang leaders to secure the country's gang truce is being wielded as a political weapon by the...
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Popstar Children of Knights Templar Leader Glamorize Narco-Culture
The children of a drug cartel leader in Mexico have reportedly become pop singers, and are openly sharing their extravagant lifestyle glamorizing drug trafficking culture on social media. Self-defense...
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Urabeños Potential Actor in Colombia Armed Conflict: ICC
The International Criminal Court has called the Urabeños Colombia's most dangerous and well-organized criminal organization, stating that the group is powerful enough that they could become a player in...
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How Criminal Agendas Took Center Stage in LatAm Peace Deals
Criminal agendas could represent a critical "blind spot" in attempts to resolve armed conflicts in Latin America, capable of sabotaging negotiations and derailing entire peace processes. Taking these...
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Can Venezuela Currency Devaluation End Black Market Trade?
Venezuela's government is planning to nearly double the fixed official exchange rate for the country's currency. However, the move is unlikely to end the black market economy the fixed rate has created...
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Colombia's BACRIM Weakened but Urabeños Continue to Grow
The overall number of members of Colombia's narco-paramilitary groups known as the BACRIM has fallen by over 20 percent since 2012; however the ranks of the most powerful of these, the Urabeños,...
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'Narco-Pardons' Report Calls for Indictment of Ex-Peru President
The final report of Peru's corruption "mega-commission" has called for ex-president Alan Garcia to be constitutionally and criminally indicted for his role in the so-called "narco-pardons" scandal,...
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Witness Reveals Zetas Recruitment, Structures in Guatemala
A key witness in the trial for a Zetas massacre in Guatemala has revealed how the Mexican cartel's original high standards and demand for well-trained recruits with a military background began to wane...
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Is Sinaloa Cartel Making a Play for Asia's Lucrative Drug Market?
Security forces in the Philippines say the Sinaloa Cartel has dispatched a hit squad to silence arrested associates showing just how far from home Mexico's primary drug cartel is migrating to...
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Youth in LatAm Increasingly Perpetrators, Victims of Violent Crime
Youth and minors are responsible for a rising percentage of violent crimes in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. They are also increasingly victimized in places such as Honduras and Argentina. The trends are...
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Mexico Sees Budding Alliance: Beltran Leyva, Knights Templar
Authorities in Mexico have uncovered evidence of an alliance between the Knights Templar and the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO), marking a change in direction for both gangs. As reported by El...
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Jailed Ex-Governor Ordered Assassination of Colombia Doctor: Candidate
A candidate for senate says the murder of a well-known neurologist in Colombia's northern coastal city of Barranquilla was ordered by the former governor of La Guajira, who was arrested last year for...
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