Tren de Aragua has quickly become one of the most infamous crime groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Three years of on-the-ground reporting across various countries sheds new light on the ...

In Ciudad Juárez, an old criminal guard is being replaced by a new one amid a changing criminal economy on the US-Mexico ...

The tightening of US migration policy after Donald Trump, means the number of migrants seeking to cross the US/Mexico border ...

A recently appointed security official in the Trump administration once led a think tank that published false reports about ...

Criminal networks battling over drug routes and markets have made the northeastern state of Ceará into one of Brazil's ...

Arms trafficking presents complex challenges to authorities around Latin America and the Caribbean, but combating these ...

Rumors abound about Tren de Aragua. It began as a prison gang in Venezuela, led by Niño Guerrero. This is his story.

Mexico is home to some of the hemisphere’s largest, most sophisticated, and most violent organized criminal groups. These organizations have drawn from Mexico’s long history of smuggling and its ...

InSight Crime's co-director Steven Dudley and managing editor Deborah Bonello discuss President Trump's latest directive, and ...

Drug traffickers today realize that their best protection is not a private army but anonymity. This is the story of “Memo Fantasma” or “Will the Ghost,” who started life in the Medellín Cartel, funded ...

InSight Crime investigator Parker Asmann provided expert analysis to several media outlets in Honduras following the release ...

Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater USA, is pitching his companies as solutions to insecurity and organized crime across Latin America.