As world leaders met for the United Nations General Assembly, Latin American presidents expressed various concerns about organized crime.
The consequences of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing are immediate and enormous across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Two subjects on a motorcycle attacked prosecutor Federico Estrella outside his home in Babahoyo, Los Ríos, on August 15. Estrella had been investigating several violent murders in Babahoyo, according to…
Gang warfare is pushing violence in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, where a bomb attack claimed five lives.
Ecuador is a hotspot for landing massive amounts of shark catch, and the nation is among the world’s biggest exporters of shark fins.
Indigenous communities in Brazil are using drones to fight deforestation and the frequent assaults of loggers on their lands.
Ecuador's complicated gang violence has been worsened by the bloody rise of R7, a small-time but brutal gang.
Ahmet Yilmaz* shouldn’t be in a dangerous profession. He’s not a cop or a criminal. Ahmet is a banana importer in Turkey. “This is my third decade in the industry,”…
Turkish and foreign law enforcement have seized record quantities of cocaine heading from South America to Turkey, revealing the growing role of the country’s powerful traffickers in the transit of…
Ecuador's two leading drug gangs are talking the talk when it comes to peace, but walking the walk may be a step too far.
Ecuador has been shaken recently by several car bombings, a terror tactic more commonly employed by major criminal groups in Colombia and Mexico.
The siphoning of guns in police custody to criminals and a naval officer accused of acting in a hit squad are but two of the latest examples of how corruption…