Venezuela’s regime has distributed weapons to state workers and militias, potentially aiming to expand the country’s civilian ...

The Ecuadorian coastal province El Oro has emerged as a new hotspot for violence, as splintering criminal groups compete for control of the region’s lucrative criminal economies.

Trinidad and Tobago has extended a state of emergency to counter record homicides. But the measure, a strategy for ...

Haiti’s gangs caused thousands of deaths and the displacement of over a million people in the past year, according to the UN, ...

The leader of one of Venezuela’s most prominent gangs, known as “Wilexis,” has been killed by authorities, ending a six-year ...

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One year ago, anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as president of Guatemala. Elected on a promise to revive Guatemala’s perpetual battle with graft, Arévalo has spent his first year ...

Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) The criminal war in northeast Colombia has escalated ...

Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) A year after Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa ...