InSight Crime’s 2025 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up
As the United States drags the drug war back in time, traffickers are leaping forward, creating new ways of disguising…
Arrest in Bolivia Signals Transnational Expansion of Colombian Gangs
From Narco-Submarines to Liquid Cocaine: How the Cocaine Market Is Evolving Join us this April 27 for an exclusive event…
On the Radar: Cocaine Power Shifts and Seizures
Allegations link Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro to drug trafficking, while Venezuela’s regime, and its Cartel of the Suns, process a…
On the Radar: Latin America Keeps Attacking Crime — But Is It Working
Our 2025 Homicide Round-Up is Now Live.What’s really driving the trends behind the numbers? Join our exclusive event on March…
What Marset’s Capture Tells Us About the Cocaine Business
The capture of Sebastián Marset, one of South America’s most wanted individuals, exemplifies why the takedown of major leaders should…
5 Things to Know About the Capture of Sebastián Marset
On March 13, authorities in Bolivia captured the elusive Uruguayan drug trafficker Sebastián Marset during a security operation carried out…
The Rise and Fall of Sebastián Marset
Sebastián Marset’s criminal career spanned several years and multiple countries around the globe. Below, InSight Crime tracks it all, from…
InSight Crime’s 2025 Homicide Round-Up
Despite the widespread use of states of emergency, the increasingly militarized response to organized crime, and the growth of criminal…
The State of Play: US Anti-Drug Cooperation in Latin America
Since US President Richard Nixon declared drugs public enemy number one in the 1970s and created the Drug Enforcement Administration…
On the Radar: Was Brazil’s Favela Police Op a Raid or a Massacre?
This week, we hold the line on more military strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific, mull the conviction of…