In 2025, environmental crimes spread into corners of the Amazon Basin that had previously mostly escaped the rampant plunder of other areas.

Armed groups have moved in to the space left by the Farc after the civil war, cutting down rainforest to control land and build thousands of kilometres of smuggling routes ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's drone strikes against boats allegedly bringing illicit drugs to the U.S. come amid an explosion in the amount of cocaine being produced in Colombia and Peru.

Organized crime and illicit economies emerged in 2025 as major drivers worsening deforestation across the Amazon region in ...

Jani Silva sits inside the wooden house she built on the banks of Colombia’s Putumayo River — a home she hasn't slept in for more than eight years. The longtime environmental activist has been ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Interpol’s Operation Madre Tierra VII netted 225 arrests across nine Latin American countries and hundreds of ...

To curtail the exploitation of critical mineral supply chains by criminal actors, lessons can be drawn from the example of ...

The surge in gold prices is driving a rapid expansion in informal and unregulated gold mining that is often illegal and ecologically destructive, according to the World Gold Council.

President Trump accused Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro of being an “illegal drug leader” and announced that his administration is cutting off all subsidies to the Latin American country. Trump ...