Browsing: Street Gangs

Venezuela has approved a new mining law to open the gold industry to international investors, but the legislation overlooks the symbiosis between illegal mining and the…

On October 14, 2020, a Paraguayan deputy named Erico Galeano Segovia and a Paraguayan businessman named Hugo Manuel González Ramos went to sign an agreement for…

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said that, two years later, his crackdown on organized crime is entering a “new phase” that combines the same brutal militarization in…

President Gustavo Petro has intensified his operations against Iván Mordisco, Colombia's most wanted criminal. But after years of military offensives and false reports of his death,…

As the trial of Sergio Roberto de Carvalho, nicknamed Brazil's version of “Pablo Escobar”, opens in Belgium, the charges against him show how cocaine trafficking has…

By Gangsters Inc. Editors A leader of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang was convicted Monday by a federal jury in Chicago of participation in a…

On the radar: is repression working? This week on On the Radar, a CJNG co-founder pleads guilty, Ecuador turns to Europe for help fighting crime, and…

By Gangsters Inc. Publishers A former FBI “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” and leader of the El Paso and Juarez-based Barrio Azteca gang pleaded guilty yesterday in…

By Gangsters Inc. Publishers Dantrell Johnson and Gregory Hamilton, both members of the Highs street gang, were sentenced to life in federal prison this week after…

By Gangsters Inc. Publishers GuatemalaThe US president has declared a nationwide state of emergency following a violent weekend that exposed how gang power remains in the…