Mexico is relying on a militarized approach to public security while overlooking alternative models that show promise, according to a new report.

Ten years ago, Tren de Aragua was a little more than a prison gang, confined to the walls of the Tocorón penitentiary and largely unheard of outside its home state of Aragua in Venezuela. Today, it is ...

Mexico’s criminal landscape may be on the brink of transformation due to the war between two Sinaloa Cartel factions, says a new report.

Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets in 2024.

InSight Crime highlights how criminal dynamics have shaped homicide rates in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade.

Criminal organizations behind environmental crimes and other illicit economies in Latin America and the Caribbean are placing the region’s vast biodiversity, fragile ecosystems, and Indigenous ways of ...

US President Donald Trump has put Tren de Aragua at the center of his immigration enforcement efforts. Here's what you need to know.

El Comando Rojo (Comando Vermelho, CV) es el grupo criminal más antiguo de Brasil, y tiene gran influencia en las cárceles de todo el país.

Brazil has seen a surge in the number of foreign nationals and women rescued from forced labor conditions, a form of human trafficking also known as modern slavery, according to a new report. The ...

Durán, a southern city just across a river from Guayaquil, has emerged as an epicenter of violence as Ecuador's security stituation spirals.

Two years into President Gustavo Petro’s administration, Total Peace, the Colombian government’s flagship policy to end the country’s civil conflict, a new study suggests that criminal groups have ...

A decline in Venezuela's crime rate may seem like a security breakthrough, but it has more to do with underworld reconfigurations.