InSight Crime’s 2023 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up
Record cocaine production and high demand for the drug contributed to criminal violence across Latin America and the Caribbean in…
Beyond China: How Other Countries Provide Precursor Chemicals to Mexico
On September 21, 2021, Javier Algredo Vázquez was on his way to a US law enforcement office to reclaim chemical…
How Haiti’s ‘Aid State’ Has Fueled Organized Crime
As Haiti continues to make headlines amid struggles to control crime and insecurity, a new book traces the roots of…
ELN, Ex-FARC Mafia Drive Rising Cocaine Production in Zulia, Venezuela
A series of large-scale drug seizures at clandestine laboratories in a Venezuelan border state suggest the ELN and ex-FARC mafia…
Brokers: Lynchpins of the Precursor Chemical Flow to Mexico
When Ana Gabriela Rubio Zea contacted her chemical suppliers in China on behalf of a new client, she needed to…
‘Children of War’: How Violence and Addiction Rob the Youth of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
On the face of one of the most emblematic mountainsides in Ciudad Juárez, onlookers can read the enormous text of…
GameChangers 2023: The Cocaine Flash-to-Bang in 2024
Coca prices have collapsed in parts of Colombia amid record hectares of cultivation. Could oversupply do what years of eradication…
Coca in Honduras: Cultivating and Consuming Fear
This article is part of NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order, a transnational journalistic investigation into global organized crime, its innovations,…
Brazil’s Drug War Costs Favela Economies Millions: Study
The war on drugs has caused millions of dollars in losses for the inhabitants of two of the marginalized urban…
From Rhetoric to Reality on Ecuador’s Security Challenge
Ecuador’s president-elect has presented an ambitious set of security plans to tackle the country’s growing organized crime problem, but harsh…