Uruguayan authorities have dismantled a smuggling ring moving weapons into the country from Argentina.
Uruguay has made Latin America's largest ever seizure of European methamphetamine, marking a new phase in drug trafficking dynamics.
Under President Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's highway police seems to have become a brutal instrument of death.
Brazil’s cocaine and marijuana markets were affected very differently by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Former Paraguay president, Horacio Cartes, is accused of money laundering at home, with US authorities also on his tail.
Indigenous communities in Brazil are using drones to fight deforestation and the frequent assaults of loggers on their lands.
Resilient, rare and incredibly lucrative, ipê trees are the unlucky bellwethers of illegal logging trends in the Brazilian Amazon.
Sergio Roberto de Carvalho, or Brazil's Pablo Escobar, has finally been brought down. Several countries want to have the privilege of taking him to trial.
Authorities in Paraguay and Brazil have recently stepped up activities targeting contraband flows through lake Itaipú, from where all manner of merchandise is smuggled, from drugs, arms and cigarettes to…
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