Latin America

Miguel Ángel Beltrán is the 13th journalist killed this year in Mexico, making the country one of the world’s deadliest for...

A massive police operation against one of Brazil’s largest criminal organizations left 64 dead and 81 arrested in the...

Instead of halting exports of life-threatening pesticides banned within the bloc, the European Union has continued — and...

A former U.S. official told OCCRP that drug flights from Venezuela often re-routed to Belize when traffickers became...

Russian officials found 1,500 bricks of cocaine concealed in bananas shipped from Ecuador. An intelligence report describes...

A new port in Ecuador has brought global commerce — but also cocaine and cartel violence — to the once placid shores of the...

Nearly a year after a 20-year bribery sentence, former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo gets 13 more years for laundering...

Men accused of murder, drug trafficking, and cartel activity have used “amparos,” which are supposed to protect individual...