Tren de Aragua is infamous for its rapid expansion throughout Latin America. But a wave of criminals originally from the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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).

Drug traffickers today realize that their best protection is not a private army but anonymity. This is the story of “Memo Fantasma” or “Will the Ghost,” who started life in the Medellín Cartel, funded ...