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World of Crime in 2025: 77 stories, thousands of readers, 43 supporters

How Organised Crime Handed Chile's Election to the Far Right

Cychlorphine, Explained: The Deadly Opioid Spreading from Toronto to London

He Knew Every U.S. Financial Weak Point. Prosecutors Say He Offered Them to CJNG.

How Trump Will Fight Organised Crime, Explained

How Haiti's Gangs Made Tortuga a Caribbean Drug Trafficking Hotspot

How a US Invasion of Venezuela Would Make Tren de Aragua Much Stronger

The $1 Billion Car Theft Pipeline - How Money Laundering Went Automotive

The Complete Story of Alice Guo: Chinese Spy, Filipino Mayor, and Scam Compound Queen

How a $50 Software Subscription is Hijacking Trucks All Over the World

Pipo Captured - How A Dead Man Built a Cocaine Empire From Southern Spain

How Costa Rica Took Down Its First Cartel

How Spain Dismantled Tren de Aragua's First Cell in Europe

Why Southeast Asia’s Scam Compounds Just Went on a Recruiting Frenzy

Why Rio de Janeiro's Governor Just Oversaw Its Worst Favela Massacre

5 Key Points You May Have Missed From the NBA Betting Scandal

Inside Belarus' Cigarette Contraband Network Causing a European Security Crisis

How Traffickers Are Adapting To the New American War on Drugs

The New Era of Football Trafficking: Fake Agents Are Kidnapping and Killing African Players

How Soaring Gold Prices Sparked a New Age of Museum Heists

10 Takeaways on the US-UK War Against the Scam Compounds

The Full 146 Entities and People Sanctioned For Scam Compounds

Why Criminal Clans Are Rising Up To Challenge Hamas Control Over Gaza

Did Belgium Just See Its First Cartel-Style Public Execution?

How a Top Dutch Trafficker Became Family to an African President

We're Launching Free 2 Play - The First Fact-Checking Platform Against Human Trafficking in Sport

REPORT: The Global Black Market of Labubu

Why Duterte Being Charged in the Hague Is So Momentous

How the CJNG Saved the US Cocaine Market

Total Peace vs. Total War – Why the U.S. Decertified Colombia as a Drug Partner

Why Brazil Just Saw Its Most Worrying Assassination in Years

Why is Canada Thinking About Declaring an Indian Gang as Terrorists?

Did Hundreds of Sinaloa Cartel Members Really Get Arrested in New England?

Why Did Drug Traffickers Attack a Ship Off the Coast of Portugal?

Why President Trump is Turning the War on Drugs into the War on Terror

How The Taliban Hide Their Crimes from Their New Influencer Pals

US Non-Profits 'In the Tank' for Exxon, Chevron over Venezuela Oil

Favela Uber - How Brazil’s Red Command Made Its Own Ridesharing App

Why the Latest Tren de Aragua Indictments Aren't That Convincing

Why Chilean Thieves Are Robbing Your Favourite Celebrities

Why Did President Trump Just Send 4,000 Troops to the Caribbean?

Who Are the 26 Narcos Extradited from Mexico to the USA?

Why We Should Probably Start Worrying About Online Casinos

How Blackwater Conquered Latin America: Chapter Two - The Coup That Wasn't

Why a Pizza Emoji Fuels Misinformation About Cartel Wars

How Blackwater Conquered Latin America: Chapter One - Three Decades of Ideology

So is Julio César Chávez Jr. Actually a Sinaloa Cartel Member?

Thailand Legalized Weed. So Why is it Handing it Back to Crime Bosses?

Core, Franchises and Copycats - The Triple Threat Posed by Tren de Aragua

The Origins of Tren de Aragua - Preview Chapter

RFK Jr.'s Naloxone Cuts Could Kill Hundreds of Americans. Here's Why.

From Naples to Rio: How Your Parking Space is Quietly Funding Organized Crime

REPORT: Shadow Economies - How President Trump's Tariffs Empower Organized Crime

The Ardillos: How a Family Built One of Mexico's Deadliest Gangs

Marked for Deportation - Why Finding Gang Members by Tattoos is Quick, Easy, and Wrong

The Complete Story of Ryan James Wedding, the FBI's $10-Million-Dollar Man

Kingpins to Sicarios: A Who’s Who of Mexico’s Extradited Cartel Bosses

How Cattle Killed This Town in Colombia

Why The Expansion of Brazilian Gangs Is Largely Going Unnoticed