Marguerite Cawley
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 00:00
A lack of transparent or accessible figures reduces Mexico's capacity to combat human trafficking.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 00:00
The operation is the first indication of what may come under the broad legal framework outlined by the government January 27. It provides for cooperation between state security forces and vigilantes.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 00:00
The following are excerpts from a December 2013 interview with Oscar Alvarez, the former security minister of Honduras.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 00:00
Minors were responsible for a significant percentage of violent crimes in Mexico and Colombia in 2013. They were also increasingly victimized in places such as Honduras. The trend is region wide and troubling on many levels
Friday, January 24, 2014 - 00:00
InSight Crime's field research into the the Urabenos operations also calls into question the ICC's characterization of the group as a vertically integrated structure with a leadership that exerts direct control over all its members
Tuesday, January 21, 2014 - 00:00
The "Law of Aerial Exclusion" authorizes the Air Force to shoot down suspected drug planes flying through the country's airspace
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 00:00
Officials in Peru have identified four land and water routes used to traffic cocaine to Bolivia and one used to move drugs to Brazil
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 00:00
In some favelas, no homicides had occurred within the past year, the report said. But residents of other favelas said they had seen no changes in the levels of violence since the UPPs began operating in Rio. Others said their presence had increased tensi
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 00:00
The minister attributed the 2013 decrease to President Nicolas Maduro's program of sending soldiers to the streets to fight crime.
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 00:00
Mexico's Attorney General's Office has newly opened investigations into allegations that President Enrique Pena Nieto accepted funds from a possible money laundering and financial fraud network during his presidential campaign.