Browsing: Street Gangs

Escritório do Crime was one of the largest and most powerful militias in Brazil's second largest city, Rio de Janeiro. In recent years, the group gained…

Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, known under the pseudonyms “Marcola” and “Playboy”, is the main leader of Brazil's largest and most powerful criminal organization, the First command…

In this week's edition, we look at two Guyanese gold tycoons indicted in a U.S. court on fraud and money laundering charges, a member of Argentine…

The number of migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal 2025 plunged to its lowest level in more than 40 years, upending a human trafficking…

Recent steps taken to root out gang-related corruption in public contracts in Trinidad and Tobago could trigger a backlash from criminal organizations that have long profited…

Reports according to which the new generation of the Jalisco cartel helps the The chapitos faction of the Sinaloa cartel in certain parts of Mexico has…

As part of a series of security reforms pushed by the government of Mexico, the country's main civil security force has been placed under military command,…

At the end of the 17th century, the Pirates of the Caribbean chased the galleons loaded with gold and silver to Europe. Today, things have changed…

On the radar: do the chapitos and the CJNG work together in Mexico? This week, we are examining a huge scanning of the DEA against the…

The live torture and murder of three women in the hands of a drug gang shaken Argentina and highlighted the country's vulnerability to extreme violence fueled…