Issue Mar 25-31 2026: Between 2024 and 2025, Colombia’s state security forces suffered 418 attacks from drones, far from being simply surveillance instruments, these lightweight airborne instruments have become invaluable weapons of war for non-state armed organizations, representing a threat for which the South American nation remains ill-prepared.

Issue Mar 25-31 2026: Four parliamentary commissions over two decades have already proven that organized crime’s weapons originate within the state itself; now, with a new CPI in the Senate, Brazil has the chance to stop ignoring the corruption within its own legal arms supply chain.

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: The death of the head of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “Mencho,” promises to unleash a wave of chaos in the country as the power structure of organized crime there gives way to a “networked model,” with greater flexibility and the increased capacity to recycle and

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: Thousands of posters bearing the faces of missing persons blanket the streets of Guadalajara, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Families place them seeking information and hoping to raise awareness of a crisis that accounts for nearly 131,000 missing persons nationwide. Now, they allege that local authorities are pushing for legal

Issue Mar 18-24 2026: Violence worsened in 2025. In various regions of the country, new disputes between armed groups became evident, while in others, existing conflicts intensified—with direct impacts on the civilian population: displacement, confinement, homicides, and kidnappings, among other consequences.

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: March 17 marked the 51st anniversary of the murder of Orlando Martínez, a journalist who worked in the Dominican Republic under the repressive Joaquín Balaguer regime.

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: In recent years, Mexico’s criminal organizations have undergone a process of international expansion; the Sinaloa Cartel, for instance, maintains a presence in at least 96 countries, while the Jalisco New Generation Cartel is present in 61. However, the reverse process has also taken place: namely, the arrival of foreign criminals and

Issue Mar 11-17 2026: A mega-operation against organized crime has mobilized security forces across the country this Wednesday, the18th, with simultaneous actions taking place in 15 states.

Issue Mar 04-10 2026: Guatemala has expressed support for a regional effort to address organized crime while maintaining protections for human rights. This position was presented during the 195th session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, held in Guatemala City from March 9th to 13th.

Issue Mar 04-10 2026: The party—created so that Latin America’s oldest and most powerful guerrilla group could lay down its arms and engage in politics within Congress—is coming to an end. It concludes with far less fanfare than it began.