On February 21, 2024, Perry Center Professor Celina Realuyo spoke on US efforts to fight transnational organized crime in the Americas at a roundtable with professors and researchers at the Center for Higher National Defense Studies (Centro Superior de Estudios de la Defensa Nacional – CESEDEN), the Spanish counterpart of the US National Defense University. She explained how criminal networks have been evolving, expanding their illicit activities into synthetic drug trafficking, human trafficking, contraband and cybercrime. Professor Realuyo outlined current US strategies and programs to counter transnational organized crime in the Western Hemisphere. She also shared her concerns that as criminal groups increasingly leverage cyberspace to recruit new members, create online drug markets and engage in money laundering online with cryptocurrencies, governments will need to be nimbler and quicker to respond to the digitalization of illicit networks by hiring new personnel comfortable with digital intelligence and the cyber domain and promote interagency and international cooperation.