May 27, 2024 · The Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación – CJNG) is a transnational criminal group that emerged from the Milenio Cartel following a series of killings, arrests, and internal fractures.

Dec 6, 2023 · Sources: Emergency decree enacted by El Salvador legislative assembly, March 26 2022; El Salvador legislative assembly; confidential police intelligence reports; interviews with El Salvador security officials; Revista Factum But while the crackdown’s impact has been transformative, the gangs are not finished in El Salvador. In fact, the government’s own data contradicts the Bukele ...

Jul 12, 2024 · Tren de Aragua is Venezuela’s most powerful homegrown criminal actor and the only Venezuelan gang that has successfully projected its power abroad. It has grown from a prison gang limited to the state of Aragua, to a transnational threat with a wide criminal portfolio.

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Sep 2, 2021 · As violence has continued to rise in Mexico year after year, criminal groups have adopted an increasingly militarized approach to their tactics, weaponry and training.

Jan 8, 2025 · Data plays an increasingly vital role in our lives, and at InSight Crime, it is no exception. Whether building proprietary databases or sending hundreds of public information requests, we constantly collect, refine, and analyze data on organized crime to better monitor and understand the evolving criminal dynamics in the region.

Dec 5, 2024 · August 2020: The Choneros kill 11 Lagartos. The killing in Litoral prison was Ecuador’s biggest prison massacre at the time. Afterward, the remaining Lagartos laid down their weapons and negotiated their transfer to a secluded prison facility. With this, the Choneros cemented their control over the main facilities, while the Lagartos were handed a protected operating base away from their rivals.

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Apr 24, 2023 · In less than a decade, the Jalisco Cartel - New Generation (CJNG) has transformed into one of the most prolific and violent drug trafficking organizations in the world. From a small group of deserters from the now-extinct Milenio Cartel, they evolved into a vast criminal network whose links extend through all of the Americas, as well as Europe and Asia.