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El Proceso magazine this week describes in detail the last months of Edgar Valdez Villareal, alias La Barbie,…
Kidnapping has more than tripled in the last five years, a study published by a Mexican congressional committee says. The…
Mexican authorities found three dead bodies of men they said were members of the group that killed 72 migrants in…
Mexicos marijuana business is booming, according to a McClatchy report in the Miami Herald. The story says that production…
The Mexican military announced it had killed 25 suspected members of the Zetas criminal organization in the municipality of Treviño,…
El Tiempo newspaper and Reuters report that eight members of the Colombian Armed Forces were killed in attacks in…
Panamanian authorities announced the construction of the fifth air station in the Veraguas province, along the Belén river, some 110…
Authorities reported several more kidnappings of migrants in Mexico, including a case in Tijuana where 17 migrants continue missing, La…
In Colombia there are reports by El Tiempo that the urban violence in Medellin has displaced at least 1,870 people…
In a transcript of the police interrogation with Edgar Valdez Villarreal, alias "La Barbie," he says disputes over control of…
A report in Milenio describes how the Zetas control the human trafficking trade in the central state of Hidalgo,…
Ecuadorean officials arrested Miguel Dutan Meneses, a suspected member of the network of human smugglers that sent several Ecuadoreans through Mexico on…