From the treacherous Panamanian jungle to the Texas-Mexico border, pipes into the U.S. frequented by hundreds of thousands of migrants have suddenly gone quiet — just as […] ...

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.

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 ...

A primary target of the blitz of Trump administration immigration raids is an emerging organized crime group from Venezuela.

Mexico border and abroad are reporting incredible drops in illegal migrant encounters in just the past few weeks. This ...

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 Donald Trump’s reckless weekend threat of sabotaging trade in North America and spiking inflation with instant 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports severely spooked investors, but did ...

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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 ...