Authorities at Brazil's Port of Santos are analyzing new intelligence and data to identify how drug traffickers operate and intercept them.

This week on On The Radar: our most in-depth analysis of the fall of “El Mencho,” leader of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG).

How the killing of El Mencho could impact the CJNG, as well as Mexico's criminal future, drawing on lessons from the past.

Today, the violence is the result of the rapid growth of the CJNG, which emerged in 2010 after the fragmentation of the Sinaloa and Milenio cartels. Since then, the group has spent years developing a ...

For members of Venezuela’s armed forces, drug trafficking, illegal mining, and other criminal rents have become a parallel source of income.

The ELN has used its partnership with Venezuelan authorities to consolidate control along the Colombia-Venezuela border.

The state-embedded drug trafficking structure in Venezuela is largely intact, although the conditions under which it operates have shifted.

InSight Crime explores the drug trafficking dynamics in Venezuela, the nature of the Cartel of the Suns, and its future without Maduro.

Drug trafficking out of Venezuela predates Nicolás Maduro and will long outlive him. The question is whether the cocaine trade will continue to be managed and regulated by the Chavista regime, or ...

InSight Crime outlines the five CJNG hotspots to keep an eye on in Mexico following the high-profile killing of El Mencho.

The killing of CJNG leader El Mencho sparked violence across Mexico, but what does history teach us about the killing of cartel leaders?