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: 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…
GameChangers 2024: Resistance to Organized Crime Withers
Welcome to GameChangers 2024, where we chronicle the major stories and trend lines of the last 12 months and preview…
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…
The 5 Most-Read Criminal Group Profiles in 2024
This year saw critical changes within some of the most notorious criminal organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean, reflecting…
Colombia Nabs Another Top Tren de Aragua Leader With Venezuela’s Help
The arrest of a high-ranking Tren de Aragua member marks another significant blow to the gang’s operations in Colombia and…
Smuggling Adapts to Reopening of the Colombia-Venezuela Border
As darkness falls over Cúcuta, Colombia’s bustling border city, shadows provide cover for criminal networks. Each night, illegal dirt tracks…
Despite Interventions, Venezuela’s Prison Gangs Thrive
The intervention in yet another Venezuelan prison under criminal leaders’ control highlights the ongoing failure of President Nicolás Maduro’s regime…
Larry Amaury Álvarez Núñez, alias ‘Larry Changa’
Larry Amaury Álvarez Núñez, alias “Larry Changa,” is one of the co-founders and original leaders of Tren de Aragua, Venezuela’s…
What We Know About Tren de Aragua’s US Presence
Tren de Aragua’s supposed expansion into the United States has received national media coverage and attention from the country’s most…