InSight Crime’s 2024 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up
Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets in 2024.…
Transnational Organized Crime Is Feeding Growing Violence in Chile
A first-of-its kind report has highlighted how transnational criminal groups are driving violence in Chile and eroding public security in…
The Decade-Long Evolution of Latin America’s Homicide Rates
Organized crime — particularly cocaine trafficking — has been the main driver of homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean…
Debunking 3 Myths About Tren de Aragua
US President Donald Trump has put the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua at the center of his immigration enforcement efforts.…
Q&A: Europe Steps Up Work with Latin America Against Criminal Networks
The European Union has stepped up support to Latin America and the Caribbean, aware that growing alliances between European and…
Chile Struggles to Tackle Spike in Human Trafficking
Human trafficking cases in Chile have increased alongside rising migration in recent years, but the country’s institutions are struggling to…
GameChangers 2024: Global Cocaine Networks and Trump 2
Increased cocaine production delivered an extra $25 billion in earnings to transnational organized crime in 2024, ensuring greater criminal sophistication…
GameChangers 2024: Organized Crime Gets Political
Criminal organizations showed this past year that they pose a growing threat to democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean,…
GameChangers 2024: Crime Cashes in on Migration Boom
As a growing number of people fled their homes across Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024, migrant smuggling completed…
Chile’s First Official Organized Crime Report Highlights Role of Foreign Groups
Chilean authorities are providing more detail about the growing sophistication and violence of transnational organized crime as homicides and drug…