Money laundering cases tied to drug trafficking in Uruguay have almost doubled in the past five years, according to a new government report, raising concerns that criminal organizations are taking…
Paraguay’s new president, Santiago Peña, will face entrenched organized criminal interests, some of which appear to have close ties to members of his own cabinet. …
Mounting homicides and increased drug trafficking have raised concerns about organized crime in Uruguay. Recent studies presented to the Ministry of the Interior came to mixed conclusions: Uruguay is unlikely…
A look at former candidate Carlos Pineda Sosa, a popular outsider who was recently disqualified from Guatemala’s presidential race.
Presidential frontrunner Edmond Mulet has run on a promise of change. But ties to candidates accused of corruption cast doubt on this pledge.
Despite previous campaign bans, Zury Ríos is one of this election’s forerunners, her success due to support from a wide range of allies.
Although President Giammattei cannot run in this year’s elections, his political party remains a dominant force.
The career of Guatemalan congresswoman Sofía Hernández is a survivor of three different political parties, connections to narcos, and US sanctions…
Former first lady and repeat presidential candidate, Sandra Torres, is once again competing to become president of Guatemala.
New sanctions in a Puerto Vallarta timeshare fraud scam show how the CJNG exploits unsuspecting tourists as an alternate source of income.
High-ranking officials from the former government of President Danilo Medina in the Dominican Republic continue to fall.
A new report points out how the success rate in fighting money laundering across Latin America varies widely from country to country.
The rise of synthetic drugs, in particular fentanyl and methamphetamine, has changed the landscape of opportunity for drug traffickers in Latin America. Highly potent and highly addictive, synthetic narcotics are…
InSight Crime’s work on emerging coca cultivation in Honduras, Guatemala, and Venezuela was cited in the Colombian government’s…
Investigators Victoria Dittmar and María Fernanda Ramírez discussed InSight Crime’s recent investigation of a massacre in Honduras’ only women’s prison in a Twitter Spaces event on…
Leading Mexican media outlet El Universal featured our most recent investigation, “The Geography of Human Trafficking on the US-Mexico Border,” on the front page of its August 30…
This week, Jeremy McDermott, co-director of InSight Crime, was interviewed by La Sexta, a Spanish television channel, about the situation of extreme violence and insecurity in Ecuador…
Non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch relied on InSight Crime's coverage this week, citing six articles and one of our criminal profiles in its latest report on the humanitarian…
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