Tren de Aragua (TDA) began as a violent extortion racket in Venezuela’s Tocorón prison and has since evolved into a sprawling transnational criminal empire with deep roots in human trafficking, extortion, and organised crime across the Americas. In February 2025, the United States designated TDA a terrorist organization, highlighting the group’s growing international footprint and the severity of its activities.
In March 2025, the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group seized control of Walikale, a key mining town in Eastern Congo, tightening its grip on one of the most strategically important sources of coltan in the world. Evidencity estimates that at least 16,300 artisanal tantalum miners work under forced labor conditions every day in the DRC. This is the brutal human cost behind the capacitor in our phones or the circuitry in our cars.
The US has moved to nearly completely isolate the Russian financial system, forcing the global banking world to make a zero-sum choice.
One aspect of the cross-border activity often goes overlooked : the Cartel del Golfo and Cartel del Noreste control human and sex trafficking routes to the United States—often with the complicity of Mexican authorities.
There are spaces where some of the world’s largest companies must operate shoulder to shoulder with bad actors, known and not.
Annapolis, MARYLAND -- (October 1, 2024) – Evidencity , a tech-enabled service that helps you see what you cannot see about people and companies in emerging markets, announced the launch of TruthSeeker , a new SaaS platform designed to streamline and enhance open source research for professionals in risk, compliance and investigative sectors. Free to join, and with a pay-as-you-go model,TruthSeeker offers an affordable, flexible and transparent approach for discovering reputation and relationship risk, and confirming identity for individuals and companies, worldwide.
The DRC has a deeply fragmented political landscape characterized by numerous political parties and armed groups - a legacy of decades of conflict and colonization. This fragmentation is rooted in the country's ethnic diversity and the lack of a strong central authority and institutions.
ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, July 11, 2024 Evidencity, a tech-enabled service that helps you see what you cannot see about people and companies in emerging markets, announces the appointment of Charles White as a new senior advisor to the company.
New service uses unique data and proprietary methodology to support ethical business conduct through customer and supplier transparency. “We support responsible business conduct through customer and supplier transparency and exist to combat modern slavery through helping global businesses operate ethically and avoid bad actors.”— Samuel Logan, CEO of Evidencity
Javier Milei is one of the most controversial politicians of the moment in Latin America. He is unapologetically decided on his policies and equally blunt in his diplomacy. After 100 days in government, it has become clear that those connected to Milei are as controversial. He and his cabinet have incited a boycott of taxes and overturned anti-nepotism decrees. Milei and other prominent figures maintain close links to human rights violators.