In 2025, environmental crimes spread into corners of the Amazon Basin that had previously mostly escaped the rampant plunder of other areas.

In a year where cocaine and fentanyl garnered international attention, marijuana continued to play a key role in Latin America.

Migration flows through Latin America collapsed in 2025, and criminal groups scrambled to fill the multibillion-dollar hole in their profits.

This year saw a dramatic reset to the fight against organized crime in the Americas, and these criminal groups were constantly in the news.

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At least 121,695 people were murdered in Latin America and the Caribbean during 2024, putting the median homicide rate at around 20.2 per 100,000 people, about the same rate as 2023. The already ...

In 2020, the US Department of Justice released a bombshell indictment charging sitting Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and other senior members of his government with “narco-terrorism” and ...