About the event InSight Crime’s Monitoring and Data Analysis Unit is hosting an event where our regional experts will examine ten years of homicide data across 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The discussion will explore how organized crime has influenced homicide trends in each country and provide insights into our methodology for […]
Record levels of cocaine production are changing how and where the international cocaine trafficking industry operates.
Join InSight Crime’s experts for a virtual panel unveiling the findings from three years of on-the-ground investigation across Latin America and the Caribbean. About the event The name of Venezuela’s most feared gang has spread across the Americas. Active in Colombia, Peru, Chile, and several other countries, Tren de Aragua has also reached the United […]
Join us for an exclusive discussion on the implications of the US targeting Latin American crime groups as it has done in the past with terrorist organizations.
In November, political leaders from around the world will descend on Brazil to discuss solutions to one of the most pressing crises of our age – climate change.
About the event For more than 10 years, InSight Crime has conducted extensive fieldwork across Latin America to chronicle the accelerated expansion of synthetic drug trafficking. From the fentanyl crisis in North America, to the surge of methamphetamine in Mexico, and the spread of tusi across South America, synthetic drugs are reshaping organized crime and […]
Join InSight Crime and EAFIT University experts for a panel unveiling the findings of our new report: Peace Never Had a Chance: Colombia’s ELN in Venezuela.
Our donor-exclusive event will brief you on the most important criminal shifts in the region and what to expect in the coming year from organized crime and the governments tackling it in the Americas.
For years, Nicolás Maduro built a system in which illicit revenues, from cocaine trafficking to illicit gold, flowed into the pockets of corrupt officials loyal to the Bolivarian Revolution, working in obscure, loose networks known as the Cartel of the Suns (Cartel de los Soles).
InSight Crime’s Monitoring and Data Analysis Unit is hosting an event in which our regional experts will examine the 2025 homicide data across 31 countries.
Every year, InSight Crime’s Cocaine Seizure Round-Up tracks seizures and major events linked to the global cocaine trade.Â
In this year’s event, we’re looking back at 2025 to understand shifts in the global reach of cocaine trafficking networks and preview what’s to come in 2026.
About the event El Mencho is dead. The Sinaloa Cartel, as we once knew it, is gone. The Chapitos are cooperating with US authorities. Mexico’s criminal landscape is entering a new phase — one defined by fragmented networks, hyper-local armed cells, and increasingly predatory criminal economies. For more than 15 years, InSight Crime has tracked […]
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