For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.

A series of immigration executive actions signed by President Donald Trump on the first day of his second term included a ...

The discovery of new evidence linked to a deceased witness in the case of Marcelo Pecci, a prominent Paraguayan anti-mafia prosecutor, has shed light on the transnational scope of those behind the ...

Many have never been found, presumed to be the victims of dictatorships, insurgencies or organized crime. The most well-known of these mass disappearances occurred in Argentina and Chile during their ...

President Donald Trump has racked up a number of wins on getting other countries to cooperate with his border security efforts, using both diplomacy and tariff threats.

President Trump’s reckless weekend threat of sabotaging trade in North America and spiking inflation with instant 25% tariffs ...

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As part of the process, Petro laid out a plan for the expansion of Colombia’s welfare state ... with each other and with Colombian organized crime for the territory and market share left open ...

The Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) — once the largest guerrilla ... in the drug trade and has become one of the region’s most powerful organized crime groups. Talks with the ELN ...

President Trump wants to deploy a blunt new tool to fight Mexican cartels that flood the U.S. with drugs, by adding them to a ...

The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their ...