A mother searches for three missing children amid the wreckage of decades of armed conflict in Buenaventura, Colombia.

The Sinaloa Cartel has long ruled the drug trade in the Western hemisphere. But now, it’s tearing itself apart. Since July 2024, two of the group’s most powerful factions have been locked in a brutal ...

A police operation in Brazil revealed how the Venezuelan-born gang Tren de Aragua has established presence in the country.

Tren de Aragua's takeover of Lima's sex trade left a trail of dead women whose murders sent a chilling message to those ...

Maduro's unprecedented arrest shook Venezuela’s power structures—both legal and illegal. We’ve been tracking the impacts.

The Gulf Cartel is one of Mexico’s oldest criminal groups, but it no longer operates as a unified organization. It is divided into rival factions that have lost territory and influence, although they ...

This week's On the Radar looks at the DEA and Pentagon assessments concluding that US airstrikes haven't dented the cocaine ...

Reports that an armed attack on the Guatemala-Honduras border was linked to the Lorenzanas trafficking network illustrate the resilience of family clans in the Central American drug trade. The ...

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The United States filed charges against five alleged senior figures in the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) for drug trafficking, weapons offenses, and fraud.

Ismael Zambada Garcia, alias “El Mayo,” was the leader of a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. Along with Joaquín Guzmán Loera, alias “El Chapo,” El Mayo is one of the most storied drug traffickers in ...

The Conquering Self Defense Forces of the Sierra Nevada (Autodefensas Conquistadoras de la Sierra Nevada – ACSN), also known as Los Pachenca, is an armed group that emerged following the ...