2 days ago · InSight Crime is a media organization and think tank dedicated to the study of organized crime in the Americas.

Jan 6, 2025 · Increased cocaine production delivered an extra $25 billion in earnings to transnational organized crime in 2024, ensuring greater criminal sophistication and state penetration which, combined with a new Trump administration, will have profound effects on criminal dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2025.

Nov 12, 2020 · This project began 10 years ago as an effort to address a problem: the lack of daily coverage, investigative stories and analysis of organized crime in

Jan 8, 2025 · Data plays an increasingly vital role in our lives, and at InSight Crime, it is no exception. Whether building proprietary databases or sending hundreds of public information requests, we constantly collect, refine, and analyze data on organized crime to better monitor and understand the evolving criminal dynamics in the region.

Jan 8, 2025 · Stay Informed With InSight Crime. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive a weekly digest of the latest organized crime news and stay up-to-date on major events, trends, and criminal dynamics from across the region.

Our Mission. InSight Crime is a think tank and media organization that seeks to deepen and inform the debate about organized crime and citizen security in the Americas by providing regular reporting, analysis, data, investigation, and policy suggestions on how to tackle the multiple challenges they present.

We go into the field to interview, report, and investigate. We then verify, write, and edit, providing the tools to generate real impact. Our work is costly and high risk.

Jan 20, 2025 · The criminal war in northeast Colombia has escalated, as intense fighting between two Colombian guerrilla groups erupted in the Catatumbo region, a key cocaine production hub and criminal hotspot along the Venezuelan border.

GameChangers 2024: Global Cocaine Networks and Trump 2. Increased cocaine production delivered an extra $25 billion in earnings to transnational organized crime in 2024, ensuring greater criminal sophistication and state penetration which, combined with a new Trump administration,…

Dec 20, 2024 · In 2024, we didn’t just investigate organized crime. We exposed it. An explosive video, first published by InSight Crime, showed President Xiomara Castro’s brother-in-law apparently negotiating bribes with major drug traffickers.