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