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Cow Fraud? How Hundreds Allegedly Lost Their Savings in Uruguay
Accusations that Uruguayan livestock investment companies defrauded people out of hundreds of millions of dollars highlight how white-collar criminal organizations can cause widespread financial devastation without resorting…
How the Nature of the K-Drugs Market Foiled a PCC Ban on Sales
The K-drugs market keeps booming in Brazil despite alleged attempts by the First Capital Command (Primeiro Comando da Capital – PCC) to ban it,…
Costa Rica Is Facing Its Worst-Ever Narco Corruption Scandal
The recent arrest of Costa Rica’s former security minister and the revelations in his case have shed light on the corruption and drug trafficking networks engulfing the government…
Last Updated on July 11, 2025 A federal judge appointed by George W. Bush has blocked President Trump’s executive order ending automatic U.S. citizenship for children born to illegal aliens, granting a classwide injunction in a Soros-funded lawsuit. Why it matters: This ruling preserves the controversial “anchor baby” policy, potentially allowing hundreds of thousands of […]
How Beneficial Ownership Policies in Latin America Fight Money Laundering
Latin America and the Caribbean have made strides in building legal frameworks to fight corruption and money laundering. But the implementation of specific tools — like beneficial…
Trump Blurs the Line Between Immigration and Organized Crime
Under the administration of US President Donald Trump, there has been an unprecedented convergence of the issues of immigration and transnational organized crime in rhetoric, policies, and enforcement…
Homicides Drop in Rosario, Argentina, but Violence Persists on the Peripheries
Authorities in Rosario, Argentina are trumpeting record-low homicide rates in the perennially violent drug hub, but ongoing killings in marginalized areas suggest recent security initiatives have…
Last Updated on July 7, 2025 The Trump administration’s Justice Department and FBI have declared Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death a suicide and found no evidence of a “client list” or blackmail scheme, per a memo obtained by Axios on July 7, 2025. The findings, backed by enhanced prison footage, aim to debunk conspiracy theories. However, […]
Last Updated on July 7, 2025 A recent New York Times opinion by Jamelle Bouie, dated July 2, 2025, labels President Donald Trump a “normie Republican.” This marks a shift as the left acknowledges his moderate stance. It aligns with 2015 analyses from Politico and The Washington Post. For years, conservatives argued the left unfairly […]