Monthly Archives: May 2013
Colombia's criminal hybrid groups, known as BACRIM, are reportedly using landmines to protect their...
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BACRIM Turn to Landmines in Colombia
A Bolivian government official says that a recent incident involving coca growers attacking the...
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Peru Traffickers Resisting Coca Eradication: Bolivia
Prosecutors in El Salvador have revealed that 180 people were convicted under the country's...
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El Salvador Prosecutors Reveal Use of Anti-Gang Law During Truce
Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox has backed an ex-Microsoft businessman's plans to create the...
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Ex-Mexico President Fox Backs Plans for ‘Big Marijuana’ Business
Nicaragua's police chief has attributed a drop in the country's national homicide rate to an...
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Nicaragua Homicide Rate Drops to 11 per 100,000
Honduras gangs committed this week to keeping violence rates low as the first step in a series of...
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5 Questions About Honduras’ Gang Pact
Colombian police have captured alias "Martin Bala," a leader of drug trafficking orgaization the...
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Urabeños Capture May Shake Up Turf War in Southwest Colombia
A group of 11 people reportedly went missing following a police operation at a bar in Mexicos...
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11 Disappear In Mexico City ‘Police Operation’
Brazil will install video surveillance cameras along the 17,000 kilometer border it shares with 10...
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Brazil to Install Border Security Cameras
Four ex-police generals have been called to testify in an investigation into former Colombian...
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Colombian Ex-Police Generals Called to Testify in Uribe Investigation
A study commissioned by the World Bank shows El Salvador spends a greater portion of government...
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El Salvador Spends on Security, Not Social Welfare: World Bank
A survey by the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico (Amcham) found that 36 percent of the...
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