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COLOMBIA / 25 APR 2011

Despite criticism from sectors of the previous Colombian administration, including former President Uribe, President Santos’ strategy of pursuing friendship with…

ARMS TRAFFICKING / 25 APR 2011

As Mexican cartels infiltrate Central America, corrupt elements within the region’s militaries from places like Honduras are providing them with…

MEXICO / 25 APR 2011

Two factions associated with the Sinaloa Cartel have turned their guns on each other in Durango, raising questions about the…

ECUADOR / 22 APR 2011

Ecuador has arrested a Colombian drug lord from a little known but very rich gang, Cordillera. Loosely translated as the…

GUATEMALA / 22 APR 2011

The state of siege had not yet ended and they had already returned. "Did you hear a cardamom seller…

GULF CARTEL / 22 APR 2011

A spate of recent arrests in Morelos has confirmed the belief that the South Pacific Cartel (SPC) is the gang…

HONDURAS / 22 APR 2011

Sixteen national congressmen in Honduras are drug traffickers, according to a former security advisor for the Honduran government quoted in…

CARIBBEAN / 21 APR 2011

More than 5,000 members of the Dominican security forces have been fired over the last three years amid accusations of…

HUMAN SMUGGLING / 21 APR 2011

Mexican federal police said they rescued 68 migrants being held for ransom in the border city of Reynosa.

GENDER AND CRIME / 21 APR 2011

While focus continues on the dangers to migrants traveling north in Mexico, a new phenomenon appeared in the south: forced…

COLOMBIA / 21 APR 2011

Forty-five Mexican police have been arrested over alleged ties to the Zetas cartel. The police are all from…

HUMAN TRAFFICKING / 20 APR 2011

Authorities have arrested 55 suspects, including 16 police, for participating in the murders of at least 217 people…

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