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Ecuador dismantled 125 camps belonging to guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) during 2010, cementing the…
At least eight people died and four were wounded in eastern Honduras in an apparent revenge killing Thursday. The killings…
Published by the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, December 2010.
In this comprehensive study published in November 2010, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Washington…
Police arrested a leader of the hemisphere's most powerful criminal syndicate, the Sinaloa Cartel, who ran an armed cell based…
Another bomb, the third in a week, exploded outside the offices of a wealthy rancher in the city of Neiva…
The Attorney General's Office is now offering rewards from 10 to 15 million pesos (about US$822,000 and $1.2 million) for…
On December 19, the government of Guatemala declared a state of siege in the central province of Alta Verapaz,…
Gun battles have rocked Nuevo Leon during the first week of the new year. The border state is being contested…
Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of the Mexican drug war and the strategic crossing point for illegal narcotics entering the…
A Colombian drug trafficker told Brazilian police of a plan to kidnap former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's son.
In a two-month operation with Interpol, Colombian police rescued 10,000 animals as part of an offensive against eco traffickers in…