A plea agreement made by a top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel's Chapitos faction raises fresh questions about the kidnapping of ...

US President Donald Trump’s plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández belie the evidence used to ...

In July 2024, storied Sinaloa Cartel boss Ismael Zambada García, alias “El Mayo,” and Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of the now-jailed former kingpin, Joaquín Guzmán alias “El Chapo,” were arrested in ...

Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado is Honduras’ former president and a convicted drug trafficker. He served about 19 months of a 45-year sentence in the United States after being found guilty of drug ...

The Trump administration has accused Maduro of heading the Cartel of the Suns, which it has now added to its terrorist ...

Ecuador marked two years in office by trumpeting results of its anti-crime policies. But its claims don’t show the full ...

The port has attracted business from some of the world’s largest shipping companies, but it has also attracted organized ...

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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 ...

From cooks and coca harvesters to owners of their drug empires or trafficking and smuggling networks, women operate in a versatile manner, challenging traditional stereotypes about how they ...

This week in On the Radar, we analyze a range of organized crime-related stories from Spain to Ecuador, Paraguay, and ...

Chihuahua is Mexico’s biggest state, and more than a fifth of its 25,000 hectares is forested, mostly with pine trees of the type that are harvested in vast quantities in this country. Half of those ...