Drug Trafficking and Political Protection in Paraguay: The Case of ‘Cucho’ Cabaña

In a Paraguay border state, drug traffickers and dirty politicians find common ground, and political fights spill into the underworld.

Venezuela Oil Crisis May Set Limits on PDVSA Impunity

Venezuelan officials may have finally met a PDVSA corruption scandal they cannot allow to go unpunished, hinting at just how dire the country’s oil and gas shortage has become.

Venezuela’s Saab Story Continues With Benefit Concert

As alleged Maduro financier Alex Saab awaits potential extradition to the United States, the Venezuelan government decided that a concert catered by a company linked to Saab’s illicit activities would…

US Senators Seek Sanctions Against Honduras President

Eight Democratic senators have sent the first signals that the United States will divorce itself from Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández amid mounting allegations of drug trafficking, saying in a…

One Party, Many Crimes: The Case of Honduras’ National Party

The party that has governed Honduras since 2010 has become a federation that welcomes politicians and officials involved in criminal businesses ranging from timber to drug trafficking to the misappropriation…

La Paz, Honduras

The department of La Paz does not house any major transnational criminal economies or established criminal actors.

Biden and Central America’s Anti-Corruption Crusade

Hopes are high in the Northern Triangle, that the arrival of Joseph Biden and his administration to the White House will lead to the creation of a regional commission that…

Keyla Martínez and Extrajudicial Killings in Honduras

The violent death of nursing student Keyla Patricia Martínez Rodríguez while in police custody in Honduras recalls the worst accusations of brutality and impunity that have beset the country's National…

InSight Crime Presents Guatemala Cross-Border Crime and Corruption Investigation

Drug trafficking has been reconfigured in Guatemala. The large clans that traditionally dominated the business have broken up.

US-Trained Police Implicated in Mexico Migrant Massacre

A dozen police officers have been implicated in the massacre of 19 people along the US-Mexico border at the end of January, underscoring the systematic violence directed at those most…

Political Elites Seek Again to Infiltrate Guatemala’s High Court

Guatemala's congress has named to the country's Constitutional Court a judge who is under investigation for obstruction of justice, in a brazen attempt by political mafias to infiltrate the country's…

Decades of Deforestation, Illegal Mining and Impunity in Nicaragua

Nicaragua's Indio Maíz Biological Reserve, on the southern border with Costa Rica, is under assault.