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The regime of President Nicolás Maduro used recent municipal elections to consolidate its control over key criminal ...

An international manhunt is underway to capture a former state security chief for allegedly colluding with a Jalisco Cartel ...

A border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana is turning violent after attacks on Guyanese security forces. Could the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro be using criminal gangs to provoke ...

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Repeated and widely publicized government actions against illegal miners in Amazonas state have only deepened the trade's ...

El Salvador is the spiritual homeland of Central America’s most notorious street gangs – the Mara Salvatrucha (MS13) and Barrio 18. For years, these gangs terrorized poor urban neighborhoods across ...

What we can learn from the war of words between Mexico’s president and the lawyer for Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.