The Monster explores forced disappearances in Mexico through the story of a father searching for his missing son ...

Heraclio Guerrero Martínez, alias "Tío Lako," remains a key figure in the CJNG after escaping a military raid in Michoacán, ...

The US is planning ground operations in Latin America as part of its war on drugs. This and more in this week's On the Radar.

Colombia just became the 19th member of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition—better known as Shield of the Americas—days ...

This week, the US's new "cartel coalition," the arrest of CJNG members in Europe, and a border operation by Brazil and Bolivia.

Throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, leaders are attempting to follow the Bukele playbook. Is it working?

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The Guerreros Unidos are a splinter group of the Beltran Leyva Organization (BLO) based in central Mexico. The group is dedicated mainly to extortion and kidnapping but also sends drugs to the United ...

President Trump’s administration has made the fight against drug trafficking the premise for militarized, punitive action both at home and abroad. At home, it has inflated the threat represented by ...

A mother searches for three missing children amid the wreckage of decades of armed conflict in Buenaventura, Colombia.

5 Seconds (5 Segonn) is one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs. Based in Village De Dieu, a shantytown on the outskirts of the capital Port-au-Prince, the gang exerts control over key transport routes, ...

Colombian prosecutors charged Alexander Díaz Mendoza, alias “Calarcá Córdoba,” in absentia over his alleged involvement in homicides, kidnappings, forced disappearances, torture, and the recruitment ...