Rosalinda González Valencia, alias "La Jefa," was involved in illicit activities long before meeting her husband, alias "El Mencho," and managed to establish herself as a key financial operator for ...

This week's On the Radar delves into the controversial departure of Attorney General Consuelo Porras in Guatemala, the arrest ...

The arrest of Daniel Kinahan in Dubai has renewed focus on one of Europe’s most influential drug traffickers and the Kinahan ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

The murder of renowned Indigenous activist and environmental defender Berta Cáceres in Honduras in 2016 was an organized criminal operation funded by money from two international development banks ...

The number of migrants traveling through Latin America to the United States plummeted in 2025 and sent organized crime groups scrambling to plug a multibillion-dollar hole in their profits. Between ...