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Despite her release, Dalila Johana Flores remains a symbol of the arbitrary acts being committed under El Salvador’s state of emergency.

The future of Haiti’s most powerful gang alliance, the G9, is at risk following a series of deaths of its gang leaders. “Black Alex Mana,” leader of the Belekou Gang, was shot dead by a fellow gang member on November …

By taking control of Paraguay’s largest prison, the Rotela Clan flexed its muscles. The siege of the Tacumbú prison, which began October 10, ended less than 24 hours later when the prisoners leading the riot released its captives, which included …

In El Salvador, crackdowns have led to rapid improvements in security. But there is real doubt about whether gangs are gone for good or what Bukele’s real motives may have been.

Samark López Bello is a Venezuelan businessman and currently a fugitive from American justice facing charges of laundering drug money. In 2017, the US Treasury Department identified him as a […]

The ELN and Urabeños are once again battling for control of Bolívar, a northern department of Colombia.

Ranchers from Mexico’s eastern state of Veracruz know a way to buy cheap cattle: Drive to a remote part of the Chiapas-Guatemala border and purchase cows being brought illegally across

The jungle region known as La Mosquitia in northeast Honduras has been an ideal corridor for international drug trafficking. However, another criminal economy has emerged at the same time: illegal cattle ranching.

Elements of the Venezuelan underworld, whether drug cartels, street gangs or illegal mining groups, have hit upon a unique way of establishing social control: