The U.S. Justice Department has announced plans to cut arms trafficking into Mexico by monitoring the sale of assault rifles in border states, in the wake of a scandal over…
A recently captured Zetas leader has claimed that the group obtains all of its arms from the United States, but while the announcement is sure to fuel the debate over…
El Salvadors defense minister said that six soldiers recently charged with the attempted robbery of more than a thousand hand grenades intended to sell the weapons to…
U.S. officials said that illegal tunnels running under the border with Mexico are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated.
The arms trafficking industry is generally thought to be a significant contributor to drug violence in Central America. But do the regions rivers of steel have a demonstrable effect on…
The Caribbean nations of Barbados, Grenada and St Lucia signed up to an Organization of American States security program aimed at combating arms trafficking in the region.
El Salvador has called for regional action to stop weapons being stolen and sold to Mexican drug traffickers. But as a look at recent incidents in Central America shows, these…
Colombia's authorities seized more than 1,000 firearms and arrested nearly 800 people in a nationwide operation against arms trafficking.
A huge rise in gun seizures in Mexico, which have gone up 16-fold over the last four years, indicates the failure of customs authorities to stop weapons entering the country…
A top Department of Homeland Security official told a House of Representatives committee that there is no need to designate Mexico's drug gangs as foreign terrorist groups, as the U.S.
The debate over a United States gun trafficking probe known as Operation Fast and Furious is heating up, and the Justice Department is facing questions over its knowledge of the…
The U.S. Border and Customs Protection agency will open seven new control booths along the border with Mexico at the crossing in Nuevo Laredo, Texas, the Associated Press…
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