The US State Department has added the Chone Killers gang in Ecuador to its list of foreign terrorist designations.

El Salvador’s mass trials of alleged gang members are the latest phase in President Nayib Bukele’s hardline security model.

De la Espriella promises a hard line on Colombia's criminal groups. Also this week: DEA's fentanyl strategy and Fujimori's ...

While the series captures surface-level dynamics of these illicit economies, it often ignores the complexity of criminal operations.

Conservative hardliner Keiko Fujimori is poised to become Peru’s next president, following a chaotic and divisive election.

The extraditions to the United States of key members of the Choneros is a litmus test for Ecuador’s kingpin strategy of culling criminal organizations from the top down. Among those on the list for ...

Jobanis de Jesús Ávila Villadiego, alias “Chiquito Malo,” is the commander of the Gulf Clan—also known as the Urabeños or the Gaitanist Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Gaitanistas de ...

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The Border Command (Comandos de la Frontera – CDF) is a Colombian criminal group that emerged in 2017. It arose from an alliance between dissidents from the former 32nd and 48th Fronts of the ...

Sebastián Marset was Uruguay’s most famous drug trafficker and the leader of an international network known as the First Uruguayan Cartel (Primer Cartel Uruguayo – PCU). Marset had ties with foreign ...