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How Cocaine Traffickers Built Their Own International Bank

What Were 30 Armed Men Looking for in a Dutch Village?

Why are Mexican Suspects Turning Up at Meth Labs Across Africa?

What Mexico’s CJNG Is Looking for in Europe

Colombia’s President Has Promised to Bring Down 10 Kingpins in 90 Days. Here Are the Men in His Sights.

What Britain's Prisoner-Release Backlash Gets Right and Wrong

Did Human Smugglers Cause the Ceuta Migrant Crisis?

How a Small Australian Crime Network Showed the Future of Criminal Communication

Erdoğan Gave NATO Leaders Personalised Guns. Chaos Ensued.

How the Netherlands' Orange Wave Became a Mexican Governor's Campaign Prop

Mexico's New Batman Vigilante Looks a Lot Like a Cartel

The Banking Scandal That Could Bring Down Brazil’s President Lula

How Cattle Smugglers Brought a Flesh-Eating Parasite Back to America

What Niño Guerrero's Death Means for Tren de Aragua, Latin America, and the US

Why Belize's Gang Crisis Has Left the Country Flat Out of Ideas

Too Big to Hide: Six Lessons from the Largest Cocaine Seizure in History

Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fading Influence of El Chapo Guzmán's Family

How d’Artagnan’s Bones Became a Crime Scene

Nine Takeaways from Cuba's Raúl Castro Being Indicted for Murder

The 10 Worst Criminal Cases Viktor Orbán Leaves Behind in Hungary

The Fall of Andriy Yermak, Ukraine's Second Most Powerful Man

The US Goes After Cuba's GAESA, the Castros' Criminal Piggy Bank

Inside the US' Most Aggressive Drug Strategy Ever, in 16 Takeaways

The Criminal Empire of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Part 4: Hezbollah and the Houthis.

Mexico Captures Audias Flores Silva, the CJNG's Most Dangerous Man

Five Ways Ireland's Daniel Kinahan Changed the Global Drug Trade

Why is Former NYC Mayor Getting An Albanian Passport?

The Criminal Empire of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Part 3: The Washing Machine.

The Criminal Empire of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Part 2: The Narco Corridor

The Criminal Empire of Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Part 1: Global Oil Smugglers

The Great KitKat Heist is More Than a Meme

The Seven Lives of El Mencho

Why Paraguay Just Granted Full Impunity to US Soldiers on its Territory

How the US Has Been Planning Military Operations in Ecuador for Months

How Colombian Mercenaries Spread Around the Globe

US and Mexico Have Very Different Interpretations of El Mencho's Death

After El Mencho: 6 Takeaways About What Happens Next

Prince Andrew and the 13th Century Law

Canada's Tow Truck Mafia: How Organised Crime Infiltrated Police Databases

Canada's Tow Truck Mafia: How Organised Crime Infiltrated Police Databases

Tokuryu vs Yakuza: The Changing Rules of Japan’s Underworld

The Many Mysteries of Canada's Ryan James Wedding, Explained

World of Crime's Major Threats for 2026: North Korea's Lazarus Group

World of Crime's Major Threats for 2026: Nigeria's Yahoo Boys

World of Crime's Major Threats for 2026: Brazil's PCC

Why the Netherlands Ended Two Decades of Caribbean Drug Cooperation with the U.S.

After Maduro: Who Actually Controls Venezuela’s Underworld?