TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras hosted the Fuerzas Comando 2022 exercise opening ceremony at Campo Marte, June 13, 2022. Seventeen countries will compete in a Special Operations Forces skills ...

Brazil has carried out the biggest crackdown on organised crime in its history. Authorities exposed a multibillion-dollar ...

The Pure Third Command (Terceiro Comando Puro) is one of the most powerful criminal groups in Brazil’s second-largest city, Rio de Janeiro. Its origins can be traced back to a split within the ...

The Red Command (Comando Vermelho – CV) is Brazil’s oldest criminal group. Created in a Rio de Janeiro prison in the 1970s as a self-protection group for prisoners, it started out with low-level ...

Last week, The Latin Times reported of a popular trend seen on TikTok that involved young adults posting videos expressing their wish to become cartel hitmen for the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación ...

BRASILIA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Brazilian and Italian authorities said they launched two joint operations on Tuesday aimed at dismantling a transnational plot to transport cocaine from South America to ...

Civil police officers found Venezuelan Andrés Marcelo Mendez Perez, 34, while he was working at a meatpacking plant in Chapecó (Santa Catarina). He had been wanted for a year and a half on suspicion ...

A Lieutenant Colonel attached to a Army Camp in Mallavi has been arrested by the Western Province (North) Crime Division over ...

QUINCY ‒ Police in Quincy and Norwell have made one arrest and issued two warrants connected to a pair of armed robberies targeting two different 7-Elevens and a car theft from a Quincy autobody shop.

The emergence of modern Brazilian criminal organisations can be traced back to the boom in incarceration and prison overcrowding in the 1990s. During this period, important changes were forged within ...