Study suggests long-practiced strategy of taking out the heads of drug cartels may be missing underlying predictors of crime.

When Abelardo de la Espriella takes office as Colombia’s president on Friday, he’ll become the latest conservative to helm a ...

Environmental features and geography may be a better predictor of homicides in Latin America than the prevalence of organized ...

For years, U.S. officials have fretted about Chinese megaprojects in Latin America. Successive administrations have, for example, sounded the alarm about Peru’s Chancay Port, which is controlled and ...

"Haitians want to survive, but they also want to move forward." ...

“He really believed that Venezuela and Argentina and Brazil and Colombia should be great countries, and that they should be staunchly anti-Communist,” a source once close to Rubio told The New Yorker.

Latin American rightwing leaders have long used humour to engage with their support base, normalise extreme ideologies and ...

A member of a Los Angeles-based clique of a transnational street gang with roots in Latin America was found guilty Wednesday of murdering a man suspected of cooperating with law enforcement. Mario ...

Peru is the latest country to turn to the Army for public-order duties, an exceptional practice that carries risks for civil ...

Their jokes undermine public trust in institutions, encourage reactionary movements and weaken social cohesion by fostering ...

They are the Juárez Cartel, on the border with Texas, and Los Viagras, a criminal group from the western state of Michoacán. The Federal Register, the U.S. government's gazette, published the ...

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