A grenade attack by a local gang in Colombia's capital late Wednesday killed three people and wounded nine, Bogota's mayor ...

Latin America’s drone arms race is growing, with governments struggling to match criminals using UAVs for smuggling, spying ...

In September 2019, for example, the gang stole jewelry worth $732,000 from a vehicle in Boca Raton, Florida. Simon traveled to Miami and allegedly picked up the jewelry, returned home to New York, and ...

Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least ...

Combing through newspaper articles First and foremost, the researcher needs information about violence in Colombia to test this hypothesis. And he needs a lot of it because, ultimately, he wants ...

The State Department declared Tren de Aragua a terrorist organization, and news reports say its members are wreaking havoc ...

The law allows female heads of households to serve their sentences outside of prison, in exchange for unpaid community ...

Gangs, drugs and public safety threats are ravaging Ecuador’s largest city and may push the president to seek help from the ...

His beat includes coverage of robberies, extortions, kidnappings, corruption, drug trafficking, criminal gangs and illegal ... Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent ... the world's biggest cocaine producers, Peru and Colombia. In recent years, Ecuador has plunged into violence ...

However, rather than being a sign of progress, this decline is driven by victims’ fear of retaliation from the gangs. These extortion fees vary by product. For instance, sellers pay approximately ...