This week, On The Radar focuses on Sinaloa Cartel founder “El Mayo” who is set to plead guilty to drug trafficking charges in ...

The erosion of procedural guarantees in El Salvador has opened the door to the persecution of Salvadorans, even beyond the ...

Like the AGC, he was born in Urabá, in northwestern Colombia. Chiquito Malo began as a paramilitary fighter with the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia – AUC).

Rumors abound about Tren de Aragua. It began as a prison gang in Venezuela, led by Niño Guerrero. This is his story.

Last week, Ecuador announced it would begin to withdraw military forces from the prisons, over a year and half after deploying them to break criminal control. The news marks the beginning of the end ...

Remaining low profile limited Tren de Aragua’s ability to establish itself in Peru. So the group began to expand.

Tren de Aragua has quickly become one of the most infamous crime groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Three years of on ...

A recently appointed security official in the Trump administration once led a think tank that published false reports about ...

Tren de Aragua has little chance of building criminal power in the US with so much law enforcement and public attention ...

The tightening of US migration policy after Donald Trump, means the number of migrants seeking to cross the US/Mexico border ...

In Ciudad Juárez, an old criminal guard is being replaced by a new one amid a changing criminal economy on the US-Mexico ...

Colombia had already proven to be fertile territory for Tren de Aragua's operations, expanding its criminal rents and ...