Los Choneros is an Ecuadorian criminal group that US prosecutors say controlled cocaine routes through Ecuador and worked with Mexican cartels. A superseding indictment is an updated charging document that replaces an earlier one, and in this case it was…
New footage shows a US drug agent reading a Uruguayan suspect his rights in Bolivia. He now awaits trial in Virginia. Bolivian media released new videos on Monday, 26 October, of the March arrest of Uruguayan suspect Sebastián Marset. One shows…
MEXICO · SONORA · SECURITY Mexican forces killed a man the authorities call a “priority target” in Sonora, the Mexican state next to Arizona, and detained four others, the federal security cabinet announced on Saturday, 24 October 2026. Mexican federal and Sonora state forces…
ECUADOR · GUAYAQUIL · SECURITY Ecuadorian soldiers and police seized about 100 firearms from arsenals hidden in bunkers in less than a week, the television network Teleamazonas reported on Saturday, 24 October 2026. Ecuadorian soldiers and police seized about 100 firearms from arsenals hidden in bunkers…
GUATEMALA · SECURITY · PRISONS Gunmen shot dead the acting head of Guatemala’s Canadá prison, where the state moved nine Barrio 18 members in May, and police then received a red alert about possible riots in two prisons. Gunmen shot dead José Ariel…
Mexico’s Security Cabinet confirmed on Thursday 22 October 2026 the arrest of Orlando “N”, known as El Coco Ranas, in Culiacán, the capital of Sinaloa state. Federal officials call him the leader of Los Ranas, a cell aligned with the Los Chapitos…
The bombing hit the post of the Community Police in Coahuayana, Michoacán, on 6 December 2025, and Harfuch’s statement says it killed six people, while Infobae and Eme Equis count 11 injured. Harfuch said the arrests came out of investigations coordinated by Naval…
BOLIVIA · DRUG TRAFFICKING A Bolivian party leader says a network charges up to US$80,000 to let Bolivia cocaine planes leave the country, and he told President Rodrigo Paz. The government answered on Wednesday 21 October by demanding names and proof. Bolivia…
Colombia’s Attorney General’s Office said on Wednesday it arrested eight people wanted for extradition to the United States on drug trafficking and money laundering charges. One of the suspects allegedly moved some $42 million in suspicious crypto transactions since 2018. At the…
SECURITY · COSTA RICA A Costa Rica cocaine chase that began on the afternoon of Monday 19 October 2026 ended early on Tuesday 20 October with about 1.5 tonnes of cocaine reported seized and two Costa Ricans arrested. The Public Security Ministry said the US…
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