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- Has Venezuelan Declared War on Colombia’s ELN Guerrillas? | The InSight Take · 12 λεπ.The Venezuelan government launched strikes against the Colombian criminal group the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional – ELN) this week. The ELN has long…
- Inside Costa Rica's Highway Robbery Trade | The InSight Take · 14 λεπ.Costa Rican authorities carried out 80 raids this month against a local gang suspected of cargo theft. Reporter Owen Alfonso rode 520km in a semi-truck cab from the Panamanian…
- Haiti in Crisis: Why Elections Are Impossible Right Now | The InSight Take · 12 λεπ.Haiti elections are currently non-existent, leaving a power vacuum that empowers criminal groups. We examine the current state of the country's governance crisis. Steven Dudley…
- Cartel FTO Designations: What They Mean for Companies | The InSight Take · 22 λεπ.What do the latest Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) designations of 21 criminal groups in Latin America and the Caribbean actually change for companies? Claire McCleskey, a…
- Dispatch From Culiacán: Two Years of the Sinaloa Cartel War | The InSight Take · 40 λεπ.Two years after Ismael Zambada Garcia, alias "El Mayo," was handed over to US authorities, the war between the Chapitos and the Mayiza factions of the Sinaloa Cartel continues to…
- Why did the US remove Venezuela from its drug list? · 30 λεπ.Venezuela is officially off the US’s blacklist of nations that have failed to adequately tackle drug trafficking. InSight Crime Managing Editor Deborah Bonello and Co-Director…
- The Autopsy of Total Peace | The InSight Take · 36 λεπ.Deborah Bonello speaks to InSight Crime co-founder Jeremy McDermott, who has covered Colombia for close to thirty years, about what the final ledgers on Total Peace show: What…
- Organized Crime in Brazil's Elections | The InSight Take · 42 λεπ.With Brazil’s presidential election just weeks away, public security has become a defining campaign issue. In this week’s InSight Take, InSight Crime Co-director Steven Dudley…
- The InSight Take: Who Killed Fernando Villavicencio? Ecuador's Reckoning · 27 λεπ.The original version of this episode wrongly stated Xavier Jordán had been sentenced on corruption charges. Jordán has been charged in relation to corruption in the hospital…
- The InSight Take: How Organized Crime Is Adopting New Drone Technology · 32 λεπ.Organized crime groups across Latin America are weaponizing commercial drones, pairing them with IEDs to attack rivals, security forces, and civilians. From CJNG's drone unit in…
- The InSight Take: The Shield of the Americas Grows, But Does it Have a Strategy? · 29 λεπ.Colombia just became the 19th member of the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition — better known as Shield of the Americas — days after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth flew to Panama…
- The InSight Take: Abelardo de la Espriella Inherits Colombia's Fractured Criminal Landscape · 40 λεπ.Colombia's new president faces one of the most complicated criminal landscapes in the world. In thisweek's InSight Take, Co-Director Jeremy McDermott and Senior Colombia Analyst…
- The InSight Take: Ecuador's Kingpin Strategy Has Tactical Wins, but Strategic Uncertainty · 26 λεπ.The capture of Ecuadorian crime boss Wilmer Chavarría, alias “Pipo,” was a major victory for President Daniel Noboa’s strategy of targeting high-value criminal leaders. But it…
- The InSight Take: Juan Orlando Hernández, from Indictment to Pardon · 30 λεπ.From the halls of presidential power to a 45-year prison sentence—and then a shocking return to freedom—this week, we take a look at the story of the former president of…
- The InSight Take: After El Mayo's Sentencing, Is the Godfather Era of the Sinaloa Cartel Over? · 26 λεπ.Ismael Zambada Garcia alias El Mayo just got sentened to life without parole, marking the end of a four-decade run as one of Mexico's most powerful traffickers. InSight Crime's…
- The InSight Take: CJNG's New Boss? Not So Fast · 25 λεπ.Following the death of CJNG leader "El Mencho" in a February 2026 military operation, US authorities have named his stepson, Juan Carlos Valencia González, alias "El 03," as the…
- The InSight Take: Washington's Newest ‘Terrorist’ Label Meets Ecuador’s Fracturing Gang War · 23 λεπ.The United States has designated Ecuador's Chone Killers a terrorist organization, but the group has splintered and has no single command structure. InSight Crime's Gavin Voss…
- The InSight Take: El Salvador’s Mass Trials Put Bukele’s Gang Crackdown on Display · 14 λεπ.El Salvador’s mass trials of alleged gang members are the latest phase in President Nayib Bukele’s hardline security model, aimed at locking in the dismantling of MS13 and Barrio…
- Colombia Turns Right With Abelardo de la Espriella: Washington and Security Challenges · 35 λεπ.The winner of Colombia's presidential elections Abelardo de la Espriella promised to stop negotiating with guerrilla armies and unleash the country's experienced security forces…
- The InSight Take: The Real Risks of Mexico's World Cup · 13 λεπ.InSight Crime's Co-Director Steven Dudley and Managing Editor Deborah Bonello separate fact from fiction around the real security risks in Mexico for tourists coming to the World…







