Seth Robbins
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 - 06:27
The new Republican governor, Greg Abbott, this month approved $800 million for border security over the next two years — more than double any similar period during Perry's 14 years in office.
Monday, March 30, 2015 - 05:17
Immigrants, desperate to avoid detection at a time of increased patrols, are choosing more dangerous and remote crossings into South Texas. Some of them even try to cross Rio Grande.
Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 08:01
Spanish priest Antonio Rodriguez talks to the 18th Street gang’s most violent and highest-ranking members as though they are some of his oldest, closest friends.
Monday, June 16, 2014 - 08:47
El Salvador's street gangs have been ambushing police with military-grade weapons, leading to fears the gangs, for the first time, have police outgunned. Is the Salvadoran military the source of their firepower?
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 10:35
After two years of relative calm in El Salvador thanks to the controversial truce, President Sánchez Cerén takes the reins with homicides on the rise.
Thursday, April 3, 2014 - 00:00
Authorities appear to be making an about-face, now that the militias' sworn enemy -- the Knights Templar criminal organization -- has been severely weakened with the killing of two top leaders.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 00:00
A vigilante leader in Mexico has been accused of ordering the murder of a mayor who opposed having self-defense militias in his town.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 00:00
Rio de Janeiro kingpin maintained drug trafficking operations in the city's largest pacified slum with the help of corrupt police offer further evidence of trouble brewing for (...) "pacification" program.
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 00:00
El Pais reported that the gang members were directed by two Salvadoran men aged around 40, one of whom operated in the port city of Alicante and the other in Barcelona.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 00:00
Brazil's authorities have announced plans to send in troops to occupy one of the city's largest slums, as authorities attempt to "pacify" the shantytown complex before the 2014 World Cup.