Venezuela’s new mining law opens the gold sector to foreign investment but overlooks entrenched corruption and criminal ...

As cocaine trafficking oozes into other criminal economies like illegal mining inside Costa Rica's national parks, park rangers struggle.

My hypothesis: the story of El Mencho was the story of methamphetamine. Here's how I investigated that theory.

The arrest of a key Colombian criminal leader in Bolivia reveals that Colombian groups are expanding their presence across ...

A Colombia–Ecuador trade war fuels contraband at the border, Peru’s election highlights a state struggling to contain crime, ...

US strikes in the Caribbean have disrupted routes but traffickers have adapted and cocaine continues to flow through the ...

Guadalupe Fernández Valencia, alias “La Patrona,” quickly established herself as a key financial operator for the Sinaloa ...

Every year, InSight Crime’s Cocaine Seizure Round-Up tracks seizures and major events linked to the global cocaine trade. In this year’s event, we’re looking back at 2025 to understand shifts in the ...

InSight Crime examines what impact the US's controversial military-first approach has had on regional drug trafficking.

This week in On the Radar, a CJNG co-founder pleads guilty, Ecuador turns to Europe for help fighting crime, and more.

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