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As it becomes more and more likely that Colombia will extradite drug kingpin Walid Makled to Venezuela instead of the…

International Assessment and Strategy Center: Ecuador at Risk - Drugs, Thugs, Guerrillas, and the Citizens' Revolution
The report, published January 2010, is by Douglas Farah and Glenn R. Simpson, senior fellows at the International Assessment and…
Mexico's Attorney General Arturo Chavez stepped down this week after just a year and a half in office. Most media…
The latest headlines about gun running from the United States south to Mexico may involve the resignation of Mexicos attorney…
An investigation by British newspaper The Observer details how the Mexican-based Sinaloa Cartel laundered billions of dollars through…
Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Panama suspected that country's politicians of taking part in arms and drug trafficking, according…
Venezuela has taken another step in the overhaul of its dysfunctional and often corrupt police force, announcing that the notorious…
In a briefing at the Pentagon, Commander General Douglas Fraser of the U.S. Southern Command (Southcom)…
Mexican cartels have moved into North and West Africa, a former DEA official said, taking advantage of the upheaval in…
A trafficker believed to be a key contact for the Sinaloa Cartel was arrested in Guatemala on Wednesday. The Drug…
Ecuadors capture of nine alleged Sinaloa Cartel operatives, and the brutal murder of a policeman investigating the Mexican criminal group,…
In an indicator of the difficulties often faced by Central American migrants, three Mexican customs officers were suspended after a…