Fito’s Wife and Daughter Captured in Colombia | On the Radar
Ecuadorian and Colombian authorities captured the wife and daughter of former Choneros leader alias “Fito” in Santander, Colombia, the most…
William Joffre Alcívar Bautista, alias “Willy”
William Joffre Alcívar Bautista, alias “El Negro Willy” or just “Willy,” went from prison guard to founder of Ecuador’s Tiguerones…
The InSight Take: US Drug Certification: Law Enforcement or Politics?
Why did the United States remove Venezuela from its drug blacklist while Colombia and Bolivia remain on it? In this…
The Tiguerones: US Terrorist Label Meets a Fracturing Gang in Ecuador
The Tiguerones, the Ecuadorian criminal group, was added to the US State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) this…
On the Radar: Ecuador Boat Strikes, Peru Prisons, and Bolivia’s Coca Surge
What’s different about the US anti-drug strategy in Ecuador? Is Keiko Fujimori delivering on her tough-on-crime campaign promises in Peru?…
On the Radar: The End of Colombia’s Total Peace?
How is Colombia’s new president backing up his hardline campaign promises? Is Ecuador closing in on who ordered the most…
The US Anti-Drug Missile Strikes Are Back. But Are They Working?
The United States launched new strikes on vessels suspected of transporting drugs in late August—the first attacks after a two-month…
The InSight Take: Who Killed Fernando Villavicencio? Ecuador’s Reckoning.
Three years after presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in Quito, Ecuador could be closing in on an answer to…
The InSight Take: The Shield of the Americas Grows, But Does it Have a Strategy?
Colombia just became the 19th member of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition—better known as Shield of the Americas—days after Defense…
Podcast | Gio and Fito: When Gangsta Rap Gets Real
Gio was a gangsta rapper. He was also the right-hand man of Ecuador’s most notorious criminal, Choneros boss “Fito.” *This…