For Latin American cartels looking to peddle their cocaine into European markets, Turkey is poised to be the next major transit point, according to a new analysis by Insight Crime.

Of all Latin American countries, Venezuela and Bolivia are the worst when it comes to tackling corruption and Guatemala, Mexico and Brazil have again found themselves towards the bottom of the list, a study says.

An international nonprofit organization has released the first ever globalmap of so-called ‘dark fleets,’ or fishing vessels that do not broadcast their location or appear in public monitoring systems. The map is exposing the extent of illegal fishing worldwide.

Illegal gold mining – often led and by organized criminal groups – is having a devastating effect on both ecology and local communities across Latin America, Interpol said in a new analysis published last week.

Although drug trafficking is the region’s No.1 problem, a top U.S. military officer in Latin America and the Caribbean has called last week for authorities to also intensify their crackdown on fish piratery, organized crime and China’s expansion.

Ecuador's former Comptroller General found himself in a Miami court on Tuesday over his role in a bribery and money laundering scheme associated with Odebrecht S.A., the Brazilian conglomerate whose massive bribery scandal has rocked Latin America.

European consumers love to buy and use cocaine. Criminal elements in Latin America are happy to feed that market, with the help of criminal groups in Europe.

An operation spanning 61 countries led to the arrest of 216 suspects linked to migrant smuggling and human trafficking throughout Latin America, Interpol reported Friday.

In the first part of this investigation, we explored how the ’Ndrangheta syndicate moved cocaine across Europe. Now, we examine their pipeline through Latin America and Africa, showing how the highly-connected Giuseppe Romeo moved drugs through corruption-plagued ports to Antwerp, Rotterdam, and beyond.

Pension Fund Administrators in Latin America have used hundreds of millions of dollars in worker savings to finance dubious private companies and buy government debt, a new cross-border investigation has revealed.

Criminal organizations exploited increased air travel in Latin America and the Caribbean to traffic birds, reptiles, mammals and other species outside and within the region, endangering the world’s most-wildlife rich territory, a new report reveals.

Uruguay and Chile are the two Latin American countries most capable of combating corruption according to the newly published Capacity to Combat Corruption (CCC) Index which placed Bolivia and Venezuela at the bottom of the list.

Four cartels are battling it out for the lucrative US$1.5 billion dollar avocado trade in western Mexico, the office of a state attorney general has revealed.

An organization promoting democracy and free markets in the Americas published a brand new index on Monday calculating the ability for Latin American countries to combat corruption, differentiating itself from other indexes that calculate “levels” of corruption around the world.

One third of all murders in the world occur in Latin America and the Caribbeans - home to eight percent of the world’s population.

Peru’s government has proposed revisions to an anti-graft law that would ease financial restrictions on companies that cooperate with prosecutors on corruption investigations, Reuters reported Wednesday.

A Colombian loan shark network is operating in more than three quarters of Mexico’s states marking its growing presence throughout Latin America, Mexico’s national newspaper, Milenioreported Thursday.