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MERIDA INITIATIVE / 7 JUN 2011

The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars' Mexico Institute working paper on how media reports focus on the security…

CARSI / 7 JUN 2011

The three-day summit of the Organization of American States (OAS) concluded Tuesday in El Salvador with few concrete results to…

GULF CARTEL / 7 JUN 2011

Mexico's army discovered a warehouse with four “narco-tanks,” two still unfinished, near the border city of Camargo. This…

GUATEMALA / 7 JUN 2011

Guatemala has captured 16 alleged members of the Zetas, a Mexico-based drug gang, who are accused of the murder of…

AUC / 7 JUN 2011

A lawsuit against fruit company Chiquita over payments it made to right-wing paramilitary groups in Colombia will go to U.S.

PERU / 6 JUN 2011

An ambush attributed to the Shining Path guerrilla group killed five soldiers in Peru on Saturday, the eve of the…

MEXICO / 6 JUN 2011

Four years after President Calderon declared war on Mexico's drug cartels, a policy which has been accompanied by surging violence…

PERU / 6 JUN 2011

With a narrow margin of victory, leftist candidate Ollanta Humala beat Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former President Alberto Fujimori, to…

ALFONSO CANO / 6 JUN 2011

Colombia's Armed Forces killed a FARC guerrilla who was head of security for rebel chief 'Alfonso Cano' in a confrontation…

MEXICO / 6 JUN 2011

Mexico’s latest anti-violence protest, the Caravan for Peace, kicked off on Saturday in Cuernavaca, and will wind its way through…

MEXICO / 6 JUN 2011

Depending on your perspective, the arrest of former Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rhon could be seen as a step forward…

HOMICIDES / 5 JUN 2011

A look at official homicide statistics provides further evidence for the theory that violence rises in parts of Mexico where…

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