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

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

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 ...

The name BACRIM was created by the government of former President Alvaro Uribe in the aftermath of the demobilization of the AUC. Then-President Uribe was keen to draw a line in the sand, to avoid ...

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

The Cartel of the Suns is a term used to describe groups within Venezuela’s armed forces implicated in a wide range of criminal activities, including gasoline smuggling, illegal mining, and other ...

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The National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) is Colombia’s last remaining insurgent group and one of the most powerful criminal organizations in Latin America. Its expansion ...

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

At least 121,695 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2024, putting the median homicide rate at around 20.2 per 100,000 people, about the same rate as 2023. The already ...