NEWS MORE NEWS
Aggressive Coca Eradication Threatens Voluntary Substitution Efforts in Colombia
Colombia’s new government plans to deploy an ambitious program to forcefully eradicate illicit crops, stoking fears for the future of a crop substitution program that has been limping along since... Read more
The Life and Death of a Mexican Hitman
It’s 7 pm on a Sunday, and night is falling in this Michoacán town. The heat of the day is past,...
New Book Highlights Flaws in Ecuador-Colombia Border Security Strategy
The high-profile March 2018 kidnapping and murder of three media workers was a landmark moment for...
Mexico’s Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel Risks Burning Too Bright, Too...
The Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel has been behind increasing violence in the central Mexican state of...
Most Read
All news from
InDepth
Work With Us
FEATURED
More Investigations
Investigations
Fentanyl use is booming in the United States. With support from the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, InSight Crime mapped the distribution chain, and t... Read more
More Investigations
Investigations
On October 22, 2018, authorities pulled over a Dominican national identifying himself as Angel Javier Morell-Oneill as he drove in Methuen, Massachusetts. They had been investigating him since Ju... Read more
More Investigations
Investigations
In January 2018, US authorities began following a Bulgarian biochemist named Antov Petrov Kulkin who they believed was running a small carfentanil/fentanyl laboratory in Mexico. Fentanyl, a synth... Read more
More Investigations
Investigations
The sea cucumber arrived. Then more arrived. Then more. It was a lot, investigators noted—too much for that northwestern corner of New York state.
The shipments were, US prosecutors would de... Read more
More Investigations
Investigations
In October 2017, two Chinese men—Xiaobing Yan and Jian Zhang—were indicted for conspiring to manufacture and distribute “large quantities” of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs in the United S... Read more
Most Read
NEWSMAKERS
