GameChangers 2025: The 10-Year Evolution of Latin America’s Booming Marijuana Market
In a year where cocaine and fentanyl garnered international attention, marijuana continued to play a key role within the regional…
GameChangers 2025: Migration Smuggling Market Goes From Boom to Bust
The number of migrants traveling through Latin America to the United States plummeted in 2025 and sent organized crime groups…
GameChangers 2025: Top Criminal Newsmakers This Year
In a year that saw a dramatic reset to the fight against the drug trade and organized crime in the…
GameChangers 2025: How the Trump Administration Reset the Fight Against Organized Crime
From drug boat bombings to terrorist designations to WMDs, in 2025, the Trump administration upended the way the United States…
How Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon’s Uncontacted Tribes
Organized crime has become an existential threat to the uncontacted Indigenous peoples of the Amazon as illegal gold miners, drug…
Brown University Scrubs Radical Pro-Jihad Activist’s Profile Amid Deadly Shooting Speculation
Unconfirmed reports identify Mustapha Kharbouch, a radical pro-Jihad Palestinian activist and Brown University student, as the prime suspect in the…
What Happens Now That the US Has Labeled Fentanyl a WMD
US President Donald Trump has designated the synthetic drug fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, putting the drug on…
How Mexico’s Fuel Theft Market Went Transnational
Mexico’s largest criminal groups are expanding the sophistication and profitability of their involvement in illicit fuel markets, moving beyond local…
InSight Crime Investigator Talks Organized Crime at UN Forum
InSight Crime investigator Victoria Dittmar spoke at the Global Humanitarian Policy Forum hosted by the United Nations Office for the…
On the Radar: Violence Spikes in Battles for Control in Haiti, Ecuador, and Mexico
This week we look at surges of violence in Haiti, Ecuador and Mexico, where struggles for territorial and market supremacy…