Nicaragua's Navy reported that it has seized 4.7 tons of cocaine so far in 2011.
El Faro looks at the dynamics of gang activity in one Nicaraguan neighborhood, giving a microcosm of the reasons why the country has been spared the excesses of violence and…
Guatemala and Nicaragua elected two former military commanders on November 6, whose vastly different political backgrounds belie their similarities on matters concerning organized crime.
In a sign of the Zetas continued expansion into Central America, three Nicaraguans have been accused of working to recruit members of the countrys security forces into the Mexican criminal…
Honduran authorities stopped two men accused of trying to smuggle 118 exotic parakeets from Nicaragua to El Salvador, concealed in fruit boxes.
This report outlines a series of actions by the U.S. government in order to face violence in Central America. Mexican drug trafficking organizations, local drug traffickers, transnational youth gangs,…
Nicaragua, along with its neighbors Panama and Costa Rica, is often described as a country that dodged the wave of organized crime violence swamping Central America, but that could be…
Police in Nicaragua have arrested over 21,000 people and seized 42 tons of cocaine since 2006, according to police statistics.
Nicaragua's Finance Ministry refuses to raise taxes on businesses to increase funding for security initiatives.
The head of Nicaragua's Navy has warned that organized criminal organizations are increasingly trying to penetrate the country's armed forces.
A U.S. diplomatic cable released by whistleblower site WikiLeaks reportedly says there is reason to "re-evaluate" how far Nicaragua's remote indigenous communities are collaborating with drug traffickers. But the evidence…
Southern Pulse examines those areas of Latin America where there is no state presence, and transnational criminal organizations are able to thrive.
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