Caribbean Nations Call for US Gun Crackdown as Murder Rates Soar
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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24 JAN 2023
As American-made guns continue to flood the Caribbean, heads of state are demanding that the US do more to stem the flow of weapons.
All About Homicides
NEWS
CARIBBEAN
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8 DEC 2022
A broad state of emergency announced across Jamaica in order to rein in rising violence has met with scorn.
FENTANYL
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1 DEC 2022
Nuevo Laredo was set ablaze following the capture of a Northeast Cartel leader. But what does this mean for the city's criminal dynamics?…
COCAINE
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18 NOV 2022
Ecuadorean prison authorities quietly released Dritan Rexhepi, Albania's most notorious cocaine trafficker, last year.
HOMICIDES
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17 NOV 2022
Hidalgo, Mexico faces a rise in violence connected to a parallel increase in oil theft.
HOMICIDES
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15 NOV 2022
Villa Española and Peñarol in Uruguay’s capital, Montevideo, have become the center of fighting between local drug trafficking gangs.
ARGENTINA
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8 NOV 2022
Argentina’s most violent city, Rosario, looks set to beat its homicide record set one decade ago. But the city’s criminal landscape has drastically changed. …
ELITES AND CRIME
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4 NOV 2022
Mothers searching for their disappeared loved ones in Mexico face increasing threats and killings.
COCAINE
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28 OCT 2022
Murders in Esmeraldas, northern Ecuador, have exploded. Gangs battling for control of drug trafficking routes are to blame.
HOMICIDES
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19 OCT 2022
Mothers searching for their missing loved ones in Mexico have been murdered, threatened, and ignored, despite government pledges to protect them.
ECUADOR
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7 OCT 2022
Any chance of peace between warring gangs in Ecuador appears to be defunct after another two massacres.
BRAZIL
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7 OCT 2022
Latin America's environmental and land protectors are routinely murdered by the regions criminals.
AYOTZINAPA
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6 OCT 2022
Mexico's army is being given more public security responsibilities, despite its human rights abuses.
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