Last week, Ecuador announced it would begin to withdraw military forces from the prisons, over a year and half after deploying them to break criminal control. The news marks the beginning of the end ...

The erosion of procedural guarantees in El Salvador has opened the door to the persecution of Salvadorans, even beyond the ...

Tren de Aragua has little chance of building criminal power in the US with so much law enforcement and public attention ...

Remaining low profile limited Tren de Aragua’s ability to establish itself in Peru. So the group began to expand.

Colombia had already proven to be fertile territory for Tren de Aragua's operations, expanding its criminal rents and ...

A recently appointed security official in the Trump administration once led a think tank that published false reports about ...

Bolivians will vote Sunday in a presidential election that could reshape it handles coca and cocaine production and organized ...

The tightening of US migration policy after Donald Trump, means the number of migrants seeking to cross the US/Mexico border ...

In Ciudad Juárez, an old criminal guard is being replaced by a new one amid a changing criminal economy on the US-Mexico ...

Tren de Aragua has quickly become one of the most infamous crime groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Three years of on-the-ground reporting across various countries sheds new light on the ...

Arms trafficking presents complex challenges to authorities around Latin America and the Caribbean, but combating these issues is possible.

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