Guatemala Sex Traffickers Earn Millions Through Deception

InSight Crime

HSI Central, South America efforts take down human smugglers in Guatemala

US Immigration and Cutoms Enforcement

Two Guatemalan Nationals Plead Guilty to Human Smuggling Conspiracy Resulting in 2021 Death of Migrant in Odessa, Texas

Department of State, United States

To Bribe or to Bomb: Do Corruption and Terrorism Go Together?

Erica Chenoweth

Violent Democracies in Latin America

Enrique Arias

World Development Report 2011 Background Case Study: Drug Trafficking and Violence in Central America and Beyond

Gabriel Demombynes, World Bank

The FARC and Colombia's Illegal Drug Trade

John Otis, Wilson Center

The Perils of Simultaneous COIN and Counternarcotics in Peru and Colombia

Barnett S. Koven

The Victory of the Urabeños - The New Face of Colombian Organized Crime

InSight Crime

Urabeños, Social Control and Coca Corridors in Colombia

Kyra Gurney, InSight Crime

Enemies with Benefits? Violent Rivalry and Terrorist Group Longevity

Brian Phillips

Gangs in Honduras

InSight Crime

Peru Conflict Profile

Barnett S. Koven

The Evolution of Peru's Shining Path and the New Security Priorities in the Hemisphere

Barnett S. Koven

Demystifying Gray Zone Conflict: A Typology of Conflict Dyads and Instruments of Power in Colombia, 2002-present

Barnett S. Koven

Emulating U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine: Barriers for Developing Country Forces, Evidence from Peru

Barnett S. Koven

“Give Peace a Chance”? Explaining Colombia’s (Failed) Peace Process with the FARC

Barnett S. Koven

Guatemalan Migrants Exploited in Forced Labor Scheme

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and the Future of Peruvian Security

Barnett S. Koven

The Obama Administration and Peru

Barnett S. Koven

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Development of Narco-Submarines

Michelle Jacome

The New Face of Street Gangs: The Gang Phenomenon in El Salvador

Jose Miguel Cruz, Florida International University Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center
Jonathan D. Rosen, Florida International University Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy
Luis Enrique Amaya, Fundacion Nacional para el Desarrollo
Yulia Vorobyeva, Florida International University Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center

Transnational Crime and the Developing World

Channing May, Global Financial Integrity

Country Reports on Terrorism 2018

U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism

Crime, Drugs, and Power in Honduras: Searching for Better Measures of State Fragility

Kari Williams, Global Drug Policy Observatory, Swansea University

Governing crime and violence in Latin America

Markus-Michael Muller

Human Trafficking Cases in Chile: Challenges for Reducing the "Dark Figure"

Daniel Quinteros Rojas, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile
Roberto Dufraix Tapia, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile
Romina Ramos Rodríguez, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile

Life Under Gang Rule: El Salvador

International Crisis Group

Rethinking the Mechanisms of Gang Desistance in a Developing Country

Jonathan D. Rosen, Holy Family University, Philadelphia, PA
Jose Miguel Cruz, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Social media and online gaming: A masquerading funding source

Pedro Ramos, Florida International University
Pierre Funderburk, Florida International University
Jennifer Gebelein, Florida International University

The Global Diffusion of Law: Transnational Crime and the Case of Human Trafficking

Beth A. Simmons, University of Pennsylvania
Paulette Llyod, United States Department of State
Brandon M. Stewart, Princeton University

The Politics of Negotiating with Gangs. The Case of El Salvador

José Miguel Cruz, Florida International University

Transnational Organized Crime and Structural Violence in Brazil

Marcos Alan S.V. Ferreira, Department of International Relations (UFPB), Federal University of Paraiba, Joao Pessoa, Brazil

Uncovering a secret slaughter: Suriname's jaguar trade exposed

World Animal Protection

Violence in Peru

Barnett S. Koven

Voting in the Shadow of Violence: Electoral Politics and Conflict in Peru

Johanna Birnir

Brazilian criminal organizations as transnational violent non-state actors: a case study of the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC)

Marcos Alan S. V. Ferreira, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Department of International Relations, João Pessoa

Counter piracy programming and potential barriers to reintegrating Somali pirates: An African restorative justice critique

Brittany V. Gilmer, The University of Alabama
Britanee E. Kane, Florida International University

Country Reports on Terrorism 2019

U.S. Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism

Dark Pharma: Counterfeit and Contraband Pharmaceuticals in Central America

Peter Tinti, Atlantic Council

Extra-regional Actors in Latin America: The United States is not the Only Game in Town

Douglas Farah
Kathryn Babineau

From transit hub to major supplier of illicit cigarettes to Argentina and Brazil: The changing role of domestic production and transnational tobacco companies in Paraguay between 1960 and 2003

Roberto Magno Iglesias, Center of Studies on Integration and Development (CINDES)
Benoît Gomis, Simon Fraser University
Natalia Carrillo Botero, Simon Fraser University
Philip Shepherd, Florida International University
Kelley Lee, Simon Fraser University

Global Corruption Baromoter Latin America & The Caribbean 2019: Citizens' Views and Experiences of Corruption

Coralie Pring
Jon Vrushi

Gold and Grief in Venezuela's Violent South

International Crisis Group

High Expectations. Interregional agendas on global security challenges: East Asia, Europe and Latin America

Juan Pablo Soriano, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Facultat de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia

Labor Trafficking of Men in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining Camps of Madre de Dios, a Reflection from the "Diaspora Networks" Perspective

Dolores Cortés-McPherson, University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain

Only Connect: the Survival and Spread of Organized Crime in Latin America

Ivan Briscoe
David Keseberg

Organized crime in Latin America: an introduction to the special issue

Damian Zaitch, Willem Pompe Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Utrecht University
Georgios A. Antonopoulos, School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Law, Teesside University

Overview of corruption and anti-corruption in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Guyana, Jamaica, St Lucia, and Trinidad and Tobago

Mathias Bak
Matthew Jenkins, Transparency International
Sophie Lemaitre, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre

The Capacity to Combat Corruption (CCC) Index: Assessing Latin American countries' ability to uncover, punish and deter graft

Roberto Simon, Senior Director of Policy at AS/COA
Geert Aalbers, Senior Partner at Control Risks

The Evolution of the Most Lethal Criminal Organization in Brazil--the PCC

Leonardo Coutinho

Urabeños Leadership Under Mounting Pressure in Colombia

Juan Camilo Jaramillo, InSight Crime

Weaponizing Peace: Colombia’s Demobilized FARC as a Lever of Russian Influence

Barnett S. Koven

A Public Health Systems View of Risk Communication About Zika

Monica Schoch-Spana
Tara Kirk Sell

Agrobiodiversity conservation with illegal-drug crops: An approach from the prisons in Oaxaca, Mexico

Gabriel Tamariz

Breaking Out: Brazil's First Capital Command and the Emerging Prison-Based Threat

Ryan C. Berg, American Enterprise Institute

Characteristics of, and uncertainties about, illegal jaguar trade in Belize and Guatemala

Melissa Arias

Cocaine Trafficking and the Transformation of Central America Frontiers

Kendra McSweeney

Comparing Different Sources of Data to Examine Trends of Hate Crime in Absence of Official Registers

Joshua Freilich
Steven Chermak

Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practives in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands

Viviana Garcia Pinzon, German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
Jorge Mantilla, Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago

Corrective lenses for a myopic state: Unseeing coca or not unseeing comunidades negras in Colombia?

Alexander Huezo, Florida International University
Gerardo Bazán Orobio, Consejo Comunitario del Río Guajuí

COVID-19-related Trafficking of Medical Products as a Threat to Public Health

UNODC Research and Trend Analysis Branch and UNDOC Global Research Network

Diamond Mining, Organized Crime, and Corruption

Dina Siegal, Willem Pompe Institute, Utrecht University

Digging into the Mining Subculture: The Dynamics of Trafficking in Persons in the Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining of Peru’s Madre de Dios

Dolores Cortés-McPherson, University of Deusto

Do Vigilante Groups Reduce Cartel-Related Violence? An Empirical Assessment of Crime Trends in Michoacán, Mexico

Juan Del Rio, Florida International University

Drug trafficking, cattle ranching and Land use and Land cover change in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Jennifer A. Devine, Department of Geography, Texas State University
Nathan Currit, Department of Geography, Texas State University
Yuneun Reygadas, Department of Geography, Texas State University
Louise I. Liller, Department of Geography, Texas State University
Gabrielle Allen, Department of Geography, Texas State University

Gang Violence: Concepts, Benchmarks and Coding Rules

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project

Guatemala: Investigation Reveals Rise in Illegal Jade Trafficking that eludes Mining and Environmental Controls

Business & Human Rights Resource Center

Illegal Wildlife Trafficking and Its Relation to Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean

Beccar Varela

Illicit Small Arms Prices: Introducing Two New Datasets

Nicholas J. Marsh, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Topher L. McDougal, Kroc School of Peace Studies

Latin America: Organized Crime Taking Advantage of COVID-19

Carolina Sampó, Center for Studies on Transnational Organized Crime (CeCOT)

Measuring (Transnational) Organized Crime as an Indicator of Global Justice

Marco Dugato, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Transcrime
Alberto Aziani, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Transcrime

More than 700 Members Of Transnational Organized Crime Groups Arrested in Central America in U.S. Assisted Operation

U.S. Embassy in El Salvador, U.S. Department of State

Narco-Fish: Global fisheries and drug trafficking

Dyhia Belhabib, Ecotrust Canada
Philippe Le Billon, Department of Geography, University of British Colombia
David J. Wrathall, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmoshperic Sciences, Oregon State University

Organized crime in the fisheries sector threatens a sustainable ocean economy

Emma Witbooi, Nelson Mandela University; Pesca DOLUS International Fisheries Crime Research Network
Kamal-Deen Ali, Centre for Maritime Law and Security Africa
Mas Achmad Santosa, Indonesia Presidential Task Force to Combat Illegal Fishing
Gail Hurley, Development Finance, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Bureau for Policy and Programme Support
Yunus Husein, Indonesia Presidential Task Force to Combat Illegal Fishing
Sarika Maharaj, Fisheries Inspectorate Fisheries Division, Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, The Centre for Strategic Research and Studies, National Defence College, Abuja, Nigeria
Inés Arroyo Quiroz, Programa de Estudios Socioambientales, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Omar Salas, Security and Government National Planning Department, Agency for Reincorporation and Normalization (ARN) Presidency of Colombia

Profits and Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Venezuela

Dorothy Kronick, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Re-Evaluating Special Operations Forces-Led Counterterrorism Efforts

Barnett S. Koven

The impact of COVID-19 on organized crime

UNODC Research and Trend Analysis Branch

The Pits: Violence in Michoacán Over Control of Avocado Trade

Samuel D. Henkin

The Rise of the PCC: How South America's Most Powerful Prison Gang is Spreading in Brazil and Beyond

InSight Crime
American University's Center for Latin American & Latino Studies

The Rise of the PCC: How South America’s Most Powerful Prison Gang is Spreading in Brazil and Beyond

InSight Crime and American University's Center for Latin American and latino Studies

Transnational Crime and Black Spots

Stuart S. Brown, Syracuse University
Margaret G. Hermann, Syracuse University

Transnational crime and its trends in South-East Asia: A detailed narrative in Vietnam

Hai Thanh Luong, Duy Tan University

Transnational Organized Crime and Illicit Financial Flows in Latin America

Celina B. Realuyo, William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University; George Washington University; Joint Special Operations University

Urabeños Reactivate Montes de María Drug Route in Northern Colombia

Lara Loaiza, InSight Crime

Venezuela: Pandemic and Foreign Intervention in a Collapsing Narcostate

R. Evan Ellis, Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)

Violent disequilibrium: the influence of instability in the economic value of cocaine markets on homicides

Alberto Aziani, Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Transcrime

What Lockdown? World’s Cocaine Traffickers Sniff at Movement Restrictions

The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)

Why Organized Crime Seeks New Criminal Markets

Jay S. Albanese, Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University

Major Cartel Operational Zones in Mexico

Samuel D. Henkin, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

The Pits: Violence in Michoacán Over Control of Avocado Trade

Samuel D. Henkin, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

The Violent Rise of Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG)

Samuel D. Henkin, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

A portable sensor system for the detection of human volatile compounds against transnational crime

Veronika Ruzsanyi, University of Innsbruck
Helmet Wiesenhofer, University of Innsbruck
Clemens Ager, University of Innsbruck
Jens Herbig, Ionicon Analytik
G. Aumayr
Moritz Fischer, University of Innsbruck
Michael Renzler, University of Innsbruck
Thomas Ussmueller, University of Innsbruck
K. Lindsler, Medical University of Innsbruck
Chris A. Mayhew, Tyrolean Cancer Research Institute

An Overlooked Transnational Human Trafficking in the State of Manipur: Plight of the Youth

Ruth Vaipei

Boom Times

Americas Quarterly

Breaking the Cycle of Violence in Mexico and Central America

International Crisis Group

Combatting human trafficking in El Salvador

The Borgen Project

Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs

Daan Van Uhm, Utrecht University
Nigel South, University of Essex
Tanya Wyatt, Northumbria University

Convergence of wildlife crime with other forms of organised crime

Jenny Feltham
Sarah Stoner
Olivia Swaak-Goldman
Stephen Carmody

COVID-19 and Organized Crime: the Politics of Illict Markets, States, and the Pandemic

Eduardo Moncada, Georgetown University
Gabriel Franco

Drug Trafficking and Political Protection in Paraguay: The Case of 'Cucho' Cabana

Angela Olaya, InSight Crime
Sergio Saffon, InSight Crime

Fishy business: regulatory and enforcement challenges of transnational organised IUU fishing crimes

Andrea A. Stefanus, Ultrecht University
John A.E. Vervaele, Ultrecht University

Fulfilling the Promise of Palermo? A Political History of the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

Ian Tenant, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Global Organized Crime Index 2021

Virtual Centre for Strategic Economic Policy and Geopolitics Research and Analysis (SEPGRA)

Haiti Travel Advisory

United States Department of State

Haiti: Earthquake Situation Report No. 4 (7 September 2021)

Relief Web

Haiti: Maintaining health care amid extreme violence and uncertainty

Stéphane Doyon

Haiti: MSF temporarily suspends its activities in Martissant

Doctors without Boarders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF))

Haiti: Violence puts patients, staff, and medical activities at risk

Doctors without Boarders (Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF))

Introduction: Violence, Capital Accumulation, and Resistance in Contemporary Latin America

Andrew R. Smolski
Matthew Lorenzen

IUU Fishing Index Guatemala

IUU Fishing Index

IUU Fishing Index Honduras

IUU Fishing Index

IUU Fishing Index: Costa Rica

IUU Fishing Index

IUU Fishingg Index El Salvador

IUU Fishing Index

Links Between Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining and Organized Crime in Latin America and Africa

Livia Wagner, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Geneva, Switzerland
Marcena Hunter, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Geneva, Switzerland

Massacres Spike in Antioquia as Colombia's Urabeños Expand

Sara Garcia, InSight Crime

Narcotics as a Transnational Organized Crime

Bambang Sunaryo

Natural Resources and Illicit Financial Flows from BRICS Countries

Hajer Dachraoui, Institute of Higher Commercial Studies and MOFID, University of Sousse
Maamar Sebri, Faculty of Economics and Management and LaREMFiQ, University of Sousse
Mahmoud M.A. Dwedar, Faculty of Commerce, Damietta University

New Criminal Alliance Fending Off ELN at Colombia-Venezuela Border

Juan Diego Posada, InSight Crime

Organized Crime and the Environment in Latin America: A Fatal Encounter

Katie Jones, InSight Crime

Organized Crime and Violence in Mexico

Laura Y. Calderón, Justice in Mexico
Kimberly Heinle
Rita E. Kuckertz
Octavio Rodriguez Ferreira
David A. Shirk

Security Cooperation, Coca Cultivation, and Citizen Security

Andrea Rocio Limon

South American crackdown on illegal gun trade reveals serious trafficking despite pandemic

INTERPOL

State Presence, Armed Actors, and Criminal Violence in Central America

Jose Miguel Cruz, Florida International University
Yulia Vorobveya, Florida International University

Technology as a Tool for Transnational Organized Crime: Networking and Money Laundering

Gurpreet Tung, Canadian Assocition for Security and Intelligence Studies (CASIS) - Vancouver

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on trafficking in persons and responses to the challenges

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

The main directions of State policy in the area of arms trafficking in Ukraine

Tetiana Shumeiko, National Academy of Internal Affairs
Valentyn Kovalenko, National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine
Maryan Hurkovskyy, Lviv State University of Internal Affairs
Mykola Legenkyi, Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University
Pavlo Komirchyi, National Academy of Internal Affairs

The Politics of Crime in Latin America: New Insights, Future Challenges

Eduardo Moncada

The Urabeños After Otoniel - What Becomes of Colombia's Largest Criminal Threat?

Sara Garcia, Insight Crime

The Urabeños After Otoniel - What Becomes of Colombia's Largest Criminal Threat?

Sara Garcia, InSight Crime

The Urabeños' Venezuela Gamble May Be Failing

Juan Diego Posada, Insight Crime

Transnational Economic Crime Organization: A Threat Of Thailand

Pongpoj Tammakulvich
Srisombat Chokprajakchat

Transnational Organized Crime and Security Threats in the Context of Bangladesh

Ishtiak Ahmed Talukder, Turkish National Police Academy & Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University

Urabeños - Gulf Clan

InSIght Crime

Urabeños - Gulf Clan

InSight Crime

Urabeños vs. Pachenca - The Fight for Colombia's Port of Santa Marta

Juan Diego Posada, InSight Crime

WFP Haiti: Emergency Situation Report #4, 10 September 2021

Relief Web

Why are tourist resorts attractive for transnational crime? The case of the Mayan Riviera

Elisa Norio

World Drug Report 2021: Executive Summary Policy Implications

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Why Leave Home

Marcus A. Boyd, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, University of Maryland

Dairo Antonio Úsaga, alias "Otoniel"

InSight Crime

El Salvador: Central America & Mexico Migration Crisis - Emergency Appeal No. MDR43008 - Country Operational Strategy

Relief Web

EU–Honduras agreement to reduce illegal timber logging and associated trade enters into force

Directorate-General for International Partnerships, European Commission

Fact Sheet: Temporary Protected Status El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Sudan

Immigration Law center of Minnesota

Fighting illegal loggers on the Guatemala-Mexico border

Alejandro Melgoza, InSight Crime
Alex Papadovassilakis, InSight Crime

Four Guatemalan Nationals Indicted by Joint Task Force Alpha and Arrested as Part of Takedown of Deadly Human Smuggling Network Based in Guatemala

Department of Justice, United States

Gangsters and Preachers - The Culture of Sexism Inside the MS13

InSight Crime

Guatemala Sex Traffickers Earn Millions Through Deception

Parker Asmann, InSight Crime

HSI Central, South America efforts take down human smugglers in Guatemala

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

New US Sanctions Target Russian Corruption in Guatemala’s Mining Sector

Vinicius Madureira, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

One Step Closer to Ending Human Trafficking in Honduras

United Nations

Two Guatemalan Nationals Plead Guilty to Human Smuggling Conspiracy Resulting in 2021 Death of Migrant in Odessa, Texas

U.S. Department of Justice

ERO Boston arrests twice-removed fugitive in New Hampshire wanted for human trafficking in Honduras

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

ERO El Paso removes fugitives wanted in El Salvador for homicide, human trafficking

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Leader of Guatemalan Drug Trafficking Organization that Smuggled Multi-Ton Quantities of Drugs Sentenced to 17.5 Years

US Drug Enforcement Administration

Mexican Cartels Bolster Foothold and Alliances in Colombia

Juan Rojas

National Police discovers strong illegal trafficking of arms and ammunition from the US to Copán

Policia nacional de Honduras

Treasury Sanctions MS-13-Affiliates for Drug Trafficking and Contract Killings in Central America and the United States

US Embassy in El Salvador

Treasury Sanctions MS-13-Affiliates for Drug Trafficking and Contract Killings in Central America and the United States

U.S. Department of the Treasury