The U.S. military says the United States and Ecuador have begun a joint military operation against organized crime groups in the South American country. The U.S.

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Criminal networks carrying out environmental organized crime are deeply intertwined with state actors and the legal economy.

In a new article published in the Journal of Democracy (Vol. 35, No. 4), CFR Fellow Will Freeman and Amherst College’s Dwight W. Morrow 1895 professor of political science Javier Corrales provide a ...

Experts and former presidents warned that organized crime, narcotrafficking and authoritarian rule are converging into an unprecedented threat to democracy across Latin America as they met during a ...

A lavish narco-funeral in Mexico, why violence is rising in Ecuador despite hard-line security measures, and the regional ...

Chile elected far-right President José Antonio Kast after he promised to reduce crime. Here & Now's Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Will Freeman about how organized crime and perceptions of crime are ...

Pakistani national Asif Merchant was an alleged proxy for Iran’s bloodthirsty Islamic Revolutionary Guards in America.

During the 1920s, Arnold Rothstein transformed organized crime into a calculated business enterprise. Through gambling networks, financial schemes, and influence in the criminal underworld, he helped ...

The US military says that the United States and Ecuador have launched a joint military operation against organized crime groups in the South American country ...