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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.

While there is some cause for concern, medical fentanyl is significantly different from the illicit fentanyl that has caused a health crisis in the US and Mexico.

Peace talks in Cauca hang by a thread after the killing of a Colombian soldier by the ex-FARC mafia.

A seventh suspect was also killed in Quito prison the following day, according to local authorities.

The organized criminal group allegedly killed at least one person and stole nearly half a million dollars worth of cash and valuables. 

Venezuela’s rampant dollarization has fed a national demand for counterfeit dollars, and criminal groups in neighboring Colombia and Peru have ramped up production.