Security

Where the rule of law ends, organized crime begins. Sociedad Media covers the cartels, criminal networks, and security alliances reshaping Latin America — and the democracies fighting to survive them. From the CJNG’s post-Mencho power struggle to Ecuador‘s U.S.-backed military operations, we report on the forces threatening the hemisphere’s fragile democratic order

The Pentagon is Building an AI-Powered Military Force to Fight Cartels in Latin America

Washington is fusing artificial intelligence, autonomous drones & counterterrorism doctrine into a new kind of war against organized crime in the Western Hemisphere

By Dionys Duroc

/ 21 Apr 2026

The Pentagon is Building an AI-Powered Military Force to Fight Cartels in Latin America

Suspect in 1994 Panama Plane Bombing Extradited From Venezuela After 30 Years

Ali Zaki Hage Jalil arrived in Panama City on Monday to face trial for the Alas Chiricanas bombing that killed 21 people. Extradition — approved by Venezuela’s post-Maduro regime — closes 30 years of impunity in one of Latin America’s biggest unsolved terrorism cases

By Dionys Duroc

/ 21 Apr 2026

Suspect in 1994 Panama Plane Bombing Extradited From Venezuela After 30 Years

ICE Renews $10 Million Bounty on Head of ‘El Chapo’s’ Son — Why the Cartel Boss is Still on the Run

Two of El Chapo’s four sons are in U.S. custody & cooperating with prosecutors. ICE renews $10 million bounty on the third. Here is the full story of why the most wanted cartel leader in North America is still free

By Dionys Duroc

/ 15 Apr 2026

ICE Renews $10 Million Bounty on Head of ‘El Chapo’s’ Son — Why the Cartel Boss is Still on the Run

Florida-Brazil Gun Pipeline: Washington & Brasília Create Joint Task Force to Combat Organized Crime

Brazil & the United States announce a new intelligence-sharing agreement on Friday targeting illegal arms trafficking from Florida to Brazil’s most powerful criminal organizations

By Dionys Duroc

/ 11 Apr 2026

Florida-Brazil Gun Pipeline: Washington & Brasília Create Joint Task Force to Combat Organized Crime

The Smuggling Network That Turned Cuban Desperation into Hard Cash

For over a decade, a transnational criminal organization kidnapped Cuban migrants in Mexico and called their families in Miami. The financial architect of that operation was just arrested in Cancún

By Dionys Duroc

/ 8 Apr 2026

The Smuggling Network That Turned Cuban Desperation into Hard Cash

Trump vs. Brazil’s Gangs: Washington Calls Them “Terrorists” — Lula Says That’s a Prelude for Intervention

The PCC has 40,000 members, operates in 90 countries, and earns nearly a billion dollars a year. The Trump administration wants to call it a terrorist organization. Brazil’s president is calling it a sovereignty threat — and voters are watching both men closely

By Dionys Duroc

/ 8 Apr 2026

Trump vs. Brazil’s Gangs: Washington Calls Them “Terrorists” — Lula Says That’s a Prelude for Intervention

Colombia Records Deadliest First Quarter for Massacres Since Peace Agreement

35 mass killings claim 133 lives in opening months of 2026, marking highest violence levels in six years amid peace accord implementation failures

By Sociedad Media

/ 3 Apr 2026

Colombia Records Deadliest First Quarter for Massacres Since Peace Agreement

‘King of the South’ Captured: The Arrest of Sebastián Marset and What it Reveals About South America’s Drug Networks

The capture of Uruguayan drug lord Sebastián Marset in Bolivia exposes a transnational cocaine network stretching from the Southern Cone to major European port cities and the Italian mafia—raising bigger questions about the challenges for Latin American security

By Dionys Duroc

/ 1 Apr 2026

‘King of the South’ Captured: The Arrest of Sebastián Marset and What it Reveals About South America’s Drug Networks

American Airlines Flight Attendant Found Dead in Colombia—Medellín Mayor Confirms Body Discovery, Extradition of Suspects Possible

Medellín Mayor Federico Gutiérrez confirmed Friday that a body found in rural Antioquia is believed with “very high probability” to be American Airlines flight attendant Eric Fernando Gutiérrez Molina, missing since March 22. Extradition of suspects is under consideration

By Dionys Duroc

/ 27 Mar 2026

American Airlines Flight Attendant Found Dead in Colombia—Medellín Mayor Confirms Body Discovery, Extradition of Suspects Possible

Argentina Declares CJNG a Terrorist Organization—and the Implications Reach Far Beyond Mexico

Argentina just declared the CJNG a terrorist organization—hours after El Mencho’s cartel is already in a leadership crisis following his death. Milei is copying Washington’s playbook. But in South America, where the CJNG’s roots run deep, a designation is just the beginning

By Dionys Duroc

/ 26 Mar 2026

Argentina Declares CJNG a Terrorist Organization—and the Implications Reach Far Beyond Mexico

Ecuador at War: Curfews, U.S. Boots on the Ground, and a Landmark Arrest—But Can Military Force Fix What Institutions Failed to Build?

75,000 troops. A live curfew. U.S. boots on the ground. And the mastermind of a presidential assassination now in a prison cell. Ecuador is at war—but the hardest question isn’t whether Noboa can win battles. It’s whether military force can fix what decades of institutional failure built

By Dionys Duroc

/ 25 Mar 2026

Ecuador at War: Curfews, U.S. Boots on the Ground, and a Landmark Arrest—But Can Military Force Fix What Institutions Failed to Build?

Ecuador's Noboa Says Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran's Revolutionary Guard Are Training Criminals in Ecuador

Ecuador’s president tells Univision that Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are training criminal gangs tearing his country apart

By Dionys Duroc

/ 11 Mar 2026

Ecuador's Noboa Says Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iran's Revolutionary Guard Are Training Criminals in Ecuador