Venezuela’s regime has distributed weapons to state workers and militias, potentially aiming to expand the country’s civilian ...

The Ecuadorian coastal province El Oro has emerged as a new hotspot for violence, as splintering criminal groups compete for control of the region’s lucrative criminal economies.

Trinidad and Tobago has extended a state of emergency to counter record homicides. But the measure, a strategy for ...

Haiti’s gangs caused thousands of deaths and the displacement of over a million people in the past year, according to the UN, ...

A year after Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared war on organized crime, the country is grappling with a surge in ...

The criminal war in northeast Colombia has escalated, as intense fighting between two Colombian guerrilla groups erupted in ...

The US wanted poster offering a $25 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is the ...

As the new Trump administration takes office, Latin America braces for shifts in US policy, with organized crime high on the ...

One year ago, anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as president of Guatemala.  Elected on a promise to ...

The leader of one of Venezuela’s most prominent gangs, known as “Wilexis,” has been killed by authorities, ending a six-year ...

Ecuadorians will soon elect a new president, and the results of the military crackdown have been mixed. Do any of the ...

The killing of a prominent Ecuadorian gang leader may further fuel violence in Durán, one of the country’s most violent ...