Mexican groups are expanding their local, illicit fuel markets into cross-border smuggling networks that affect the US energy ...

US President Donald Trump has designated the synthetic drug fentanyl as a WMD, putting the drug on par with nuclear bombs ...

InSight Crime investigator Victoria Dittmar spoke at the Global Humanitarian Policy Forum on December 11 to discuss organized ...

It took decades for the ELN to achieve hegemony in Arauca. Recently, it has solidified a similar level of control on the ...

The ELN has now reportedly expanded to operating its own cocaine laboratories and overseeing transport of the drug across ...

The ELN’s impunity in Táchira is the result of years of complicity and cooperation with local security forces and ...

This week shows contradictions in US policy, with Trump fighting the drug war with one hand and doing deals with traffickers ...

The future of the ELN is now connected to Venezuela. As long as the Venezuelan government supports the group, it cannot be ...

Criminal actors in Mexico are becoming more professional, driving up murder rates each year Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated, and most violent organized criminal ...

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 ...

InSight Crime Managing Editor Deborah Bonello was recently interviewed by the major Mexican newspaper Milenio to discuss her ...

This investigation looks at the growth of the ELN in Venezuela and how this has allowed the rebel group to project itself ...