On 8 June, a large Boeing 747 of suspicious origin was grounded in Buenos Aires, where Argentine authorities seized the crew’s passports. The plane belongs to Venezuela’s state-owned Emtrasur Cargo…
Paraguayan prosecutor Marcelo Pecci was recently murdered on the Island of Barú while on honeymoon with his wife. The young prosecutor, who specialized in organized crime, had a reputation for…
Mexican criminal organizations have ambitions to transform much of South America’s drug trade through a robust physical presence in Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. Previously, emissaries of Mexican criminal organizations had…
In November 2021, Colombian security forces arrested Dairo Antonio Úsuga, otherwise known as “Otoniel,” the leader of the Gulf Clan and the most wanted drug trafficker in the country. Colombian…
The accompanying passages suggest that Argentina’s political leadership would like to move the country away from Western economic and multilateral institutions, which often demand strenuous and politically challenging macroeconomic reforms…
Peru’s President, Pedro Castillo, has had trouble retaining ministers. Castillo announced yet another new cabinet—the fourth in his six-month tenure, according to Spanish-language CNN en Español. Such rapid cabinet turnover…
In January, Colombia’s constitutional court halted President Iván Duque’s plan to return to aerial spraying of glyphosate as a means of eradicating coca. According to an article posted in one…
At the end of 2021, Nicaragua’s dictator Daniel Ortega announced that his country would recognize China after severing over 30 years of diplomatic relations with Taiwan (See “Nicaragua’s Ortega Consolidating…
In late October, Colombian officials arrested Dairo Antonio Úsuga David, also known as “Otoniel,” head of the Gulf Clan. At the time of his arrest, Colombian authorities had been searching…
Following several weeks of gruesome prison riots and a string of hundreds of murders, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso has called for European and U.S. assistance in the country’s fight against…