Criminal Organizations
Thursday, July 23, 2015 - 07:27
New government data shows that just three municipalities account for over 40 percent of all murders in Honduras, reflecting the regional imbalances in homicide rates across the country.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015 - 04:42
The arrest of six members of a family running an extortion gang in Buenos Aires has drawn attention to a new trend in extortion in Argentina, known regionally as "virtual kidnappings."
Thursday, July 16, 2015 - 07:44
Targets of heavily-armed special troops are not guerrilla forces and their civilian sympathizers, but gang members, who have killed so many rivals and civilians alike that the country’s monthly death toll is rising to levels not seen since the end of the 12-year civil war in 1992.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 - 07:20
Haiti’s leaders have long made use of armed groups to impose their will in the streets of vibrant but derelict Port-Au-Prince, offering precious little in return. Now some of those communities may have had enough.
Monday, July 13, 2015 - 06:53
Revista Factum shows MS13’s history in Maryland via an exhaustive review of judicial documents and hours of interviews with police, defense lawyers, and ex-gang members in San Salvador.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 07:38
Security officials have implied that the majority of the victims are the result of gang-on-gang violence or internal purges within street gangs. However, local newspaper El Diario de Hoy investigated a sampling of murder cases from five municipalities, and determined that less than half of the victims had clear links to street gangs.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015 - 07:02
A Numerical Recap of Latin America's Current Security Situation.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 - 06:30
This March the National Civil Police (PNC) recorded 481 homicides as El Salvador continued its steady regression to levels of violence once hoped confined to the country’s ultraviolent past.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 - 06:56
Personal accounts of citizens from Nuevo Israel, a marginal community located just northwest of central San Salvador.
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 06:44
Gang violence is skyrocketing in El Salvador. May finished with more than 600 murders, more than any previous month since the country's civil war that ended in the early 1990s. Young people are often the victims, but the members of the The Rescue Command are on the front lines in a different way.