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Peruvian NGO Capital Humano y Social Alternativo reported on new strategies employed by Perus human traffickers, a sign…
In a display of drug cartels increasing technological sophistication, Colombian officials have captured the first submarine capable of smuggling cocaine…
A Venezuelan think-tank stated that kidnappings could have risen by 60 percent between 2009 and 2010, with this nation overtaking…
The U.K. release of My Kidnapper, a documentary film about a British former hostage's meeting with his captors, ex-members of…
A blogger in Rio de Janeiro gives an on-the-ground view of some of the security advances in the the city's…
As Mexican authorities go after the leaders of drug trafficking organizations, to decapitate and dismantle them, the patterns of violence…
While Colombian rebel groups and the new generation of drug cartels have been moving ever closer in the interests of…
Colombia and Panama signed an agreement to cooperate in fighting crime along their shared border region, which is…
As Mexican drug traffickers continue to operate with impunity in Guatemalas dense borderland jungles, the Guatemalan military is readying itself…
On February 10 State Department official William Brownfield announced that Central America will receive an aid package of $200…
Members of one of the most militarized drug-trafficking groups in Colombia are now being recruited by the Revolutionary Armed Forces…
As both Venezuelas government and the opposition battle over the significance of the countrys rising murder rate, neither side seems…