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Alias Orgón was charged for accessing several Colombian government websites and will serve 3 years and 5 months in prison.

President Gustavo Petro’s “Total Peace” policy had a difficult 2023. Not only did it fail to persuade the country’s most important armed groups to lay down their arms, but it also led to a reshaping of Colombia‘s criminal landscape.

Record cocaine production in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia has fueled violence between local and international criminal groups in Ecuador, where homicides increased by 94.7% from 2021 to 2022.

The 30 years since the kingpin’s death have shown that the business remains one of the world’s most dynamic criminal economies.

Criminal groups lure children with promises of weapons and money, taking advantage of their poverty and vulnerability. When that doesn't work, they can resort to force.

The plan was ambitious from the onset, but talks with the country’s two most important criminal groups, the ELN and the EMC, appear to be unraveling.

A cyber-breach at Colombia’s prosecutor’s office has exposed the identities of more than 100 US law enforcement agents and scores of their Colombian and global counterparts.

Although Colombia’s regional elections were more peaceful than those held four years ago, they showed that organized crime continues to be a severe threat to electoral proceedings.

Luis Manuel has been detained for six days since he and Lucho’s mother were kidnapped on Saturday from a gas station in their home department of La Guajira.

The first reports of Tren de Aragua’s expansion outside of Venezuela appeared in 2018. As migrants headed further south, so did Tren de Aragua.