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…
Why did drug trafficking enjoy such a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic…
Prosecutors, mayors, prison directors, relatives of officials - are assassinations here to stay in Paraguay?…
The loosening of firearm restrictions in Brazil is creating new channels for criminal groups to obtain weapons via legal means – a worrying trend in country long plagued by gun…
Sergio Roberto de Carvalho, known as the "Brazilian Pablo Escobar," has been arrested in Hungary.
A large-scale seizure of Irganox 1076 in Brazil show that this cutting agent is now being used to cut large quantities of cocaine and crack.