Al Jazeera
Monday, June 10, 2013 - 00:00
There is a general consensus that the Honduran gangs are not as centralised as the Salvadoran gangs, which will make gang leaders' enforcement of a truce more difficult
Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 00:00
Mexican soldiers have been deployed to the western state of Michoacan as part of a crackdown on the Knights Templar, one of the country's most powerful cartels
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 00:00
We're here with the army to destroy a clandestine landing strip in the forest used by illegal gold miners to bring in men and supplies
Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 00:00
Brazil's military is 12 days into its largest ever deployment of troops in the country's border regions
Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 00:00
We discuss the key issue of land reform, as government negotiators and FARC rebels strike a deal
Monday, May 27, 2013 - 00:00
The Brazilian military has launched their largest border security operation ever – spanning the entire 16,000 kilometres of Brazil’s border with 10 different countries. The operation is called Agata 7
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 00:00
Many Latin American countries are currently depleting what little institutional capital they have built up over the previous decades. Is Brazil at risk of a similar derailment?
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 00:00
As Barack Obama, the US president, heads to Mexico, the situation is still so desperate in some areas that local media are often afraid to talk about it
Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 00:00
The meeting between the two American leaders comes amid reports that Mexico City is shifting its security strategy, and shutting Washington out of its counter-narcotics operations
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 00:00
A Brazilian federal prosecutor has ordered an investigation into former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's alleged role in a 2005 vote buying corruption scandal