InSightCrime

Police agencies have long known that Mexican drug cartels help supply Europe’s nearly US$10 billion annual cocaine habit,...

Seventy people, including former Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina and former Vice-President Roxana Baldetti, were...

Police inColombia are investigating whetherMexico'sSinaloa Cartel is behind four recent murders in the port city of...

Colombia's government has initiated preliminarypeace talks with the country's second largest guerrilla group, theELN, in a...

Authorities in Jamaica have reported a 40 percent rise in murders in West Kingston, likely the result of a power vacuum left...

Sex traffickers inMexico have reportedly begun using underage girls to recruit other minors for sexual exploitation,...

Colombia andVenezuela are to launch a new anti-smuggling initiative in an attempt to crack down on the huge amounts of...

Authorities in Michoacan,Mexico have arrested an alleged topKnights Templar leader, as the government's pursuit of the...

We can already identify some of the trends that are likely to mark the evolution of organized crime in 2014. One is the...