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EL SALVADOR
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9 MAR 2011
El Salvador's infamous street gangs, including the Mara Salvatruchas (MS-13), are getting more deeply involved in drug trafficking and are…
COLOMBIA
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9 MAR 2011
(Originally published 3 March, reprinted with permission from Adam Isacson and Just the Facts.) The State…
COLOMBIA
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9 MAR 2011
The Colombian army did not, as it said, rescue 21 of 23 kidnapped oil workers, one of the victims told…
BRAZIL
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8 MAR 2011
Carnival in Latin America means revelry, skin and fiesta, or festa as you might say in Portuguese. But it also…
COLOMBIA
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8 MAR 2011
Just as quickly as 23 oil field workers were kidnapped in Vichada, one of Colombia's most rural and isolated departments,…
COLOMBIA
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8 MAR 2011
Following the discovery in February of Colombias first fully submersible narco-submarine, built by drug cartels to ship cocaine…
EXTORTION
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7 MAR 2011
Two attacks by suspected organized criminal gangs on state oil workers in Mexico in recent days have left two dead…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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7 MAR 2011
Last Wednesday Ecuador dismantled a weapons factory in Quito allegedly supplying arms to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas…
4 MAR 2011
The United States Department of State has issued its latest report on drug trafficking and…
COLOMBIA
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4 MAR 2011
A report from the New York Times published Friday examines the way that gold mining in northern Colombia,…
BOLIVIA
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4 MAR 2011
Large discrepancies in coca cultivation figures cited by the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) and the U.S.
MEXICO
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3 MAR 2011
Wednesday night a federal judge suspended all screenings of a controversial documentary film which tracks the failings of the Mexician…
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