With AI moving into nearly all corners of life, criminal organizations and law enforcement are adopting new technologies to ...

With power in Venezuela shifting, the future of the ELN's relationship with the Venezuelan government remains in question.

This week: violent gang reprisals in Guatemala, a symbolic push for justice in Colombia, and mounting pressure on Mexico from ...

This week, we analyze the ripples of recent US operations in the Caribbean and Venezuela across the region. That includes ...

How will Maduro's removal impact Venezuela's criminal landscape and groups, and the criminality embedded in its current ...

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The Cartel of the Suns is a term used to describe groups within Venezuela’s armed forces implicated in a wide range of criminal activities, including gasoline smuggling, illegal mining, and other ...

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At least 121,695 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2024, putting the median homicide rate at around 20.2 per 100,000 people, about the same rate as 2023. The already ...

There is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes a “mafia state.” Here are seven arguments as to why we think Venezuela qualifies and what the implications are of this troubled Andean ...

In 2020, the US Department of Justice released a bombshell indictment charging sitting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior members of his government with “narco-terrorism” and ...

Venezuela’s organized crime groups and networks have evolved rapidly over the last decade, exploiting social and political crises that have wracked the country while benefiting from a criminally ...