Criminal Organizations
Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 07:30
El Salvador recorded a grisly milestone with 635 homicides in May, believed to be the most killings for a single month since the Central American nation's civil war ended in 1992.
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 07:13
With more than 600 murders per month, El Salvador is now more dangerous than it was during its civil war.
Monday, June 1, 2015 - 06:49
Eleven of the men killed by police this month in one of the deadliest clashes of Mexico’s drug war came from the blocks of Infonavit 5, a poor bar-and-brothel neighborhood in this farming town in Jalisco state. The questions about who these men were, and how they died, are at the center of a growing controversy over what happened May 22 behind the chain-link fence of the Rancho del Sol in Michoacan state.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 07:17
In May alone, more than 411 people, an average of 21 a day, were murdered in El Salvador. Just two months ago, the murder rate surged to its highest level in a decade, with March, El Salvador’s deadliest month in 10 years, recording 481 homicides. Now the country is on track to break that record.
Tuesday, May 26, 2015 - 07:03
Most nights now, men in black masks are sweeping through this city, house to house, rousting shirtless boys from their mattresses, shining flashlights across their torsos, looking for tattoos.
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 06:37
This year, El Salvador began a strategy to fight gang violence, including improved capacities for controlling and persecuting criminals, facilitating rehabilitation and reintegration of gang members, extending violence-prevention programs, providing assistance and protection to victims and strengthening coordination with the judicial system.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 06:40
The existing criminal networks that bring drugs and people from Central American are growing in sophistication and the criminal enterprises are earning the gross domestic product of a small country, the head of Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) said on Tuesday.
Monday, May 18, 2015 - 09:33
In El Salvador, the homicide rate has spiked to its highest level in a decade. The gangs issued a statement last month saying that police are the most dangerous criminals and “what their actions are feeding is war.” The aggressive posture of police and soldiers worries human rights groups in El Salvador.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 07:17
The report, called “Visualizing what’s behind crime,” was produced by the Observatory on Organized Crime, a program of the Paz Activa civil society group. Venezuela, despite being rich in oil, has some of the highest murder and kidnapping rates in the world.
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 07:01
Elements of the Marines and Federal Police detained today a presumed criminal leader in Reynosa, Tamaulipas nicknamed El Commandante 22 together with two other presumed criminals. The capture of El Commandante set off various narco blockades and confrontations between armed civilians and elements of the Marina and Federal Police.