GameChangers: How the Trump Administration Reset the Fight Against Organized Crime

Every year, we bring you our annual GameChangers series, which breaks down the year’s biggest organized crime stories from across the region.This is the tenth edition of our series, and this year, we are looking back not just at the events of 2025, but over the last decade, which has brought tectonic shifts in criminal markets in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the series, we will look at how the migrant smuggling market went bust and the explosion in the use of cryptocurrency by organized crime. We will explain the evolution of the region’s marijuana market and the rapid growth of environmental crime. Colombia’s Total Peace process will be put under the microscope, as well as the seismic shift in the United States’ drug war in the region. How the Trump Administration Reset the Fight Against Organized Crime | Written by Steven Dudley and Jeremy McDermott, and read by Steven Dudley.Visit insightcrime.org for more information.