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Jamaican police have tenuous hold on Kingston violence; death toll more than 44
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 00:00
Jamaican security forces claimed a tenuous hold over the slum stronghold of an alleged drug kingpin and gang leader sought by the United States, but only after clashes that killed at least 44 civilians
Violence surges in Jamaica as troops hunt alleged drug kingpin
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 00:00
The bloodshed in Kingston occurred as the Obama administration has become increasingly concerned about surging violence in the Caribbean linked to the drug trade.
President Obama to send more National Guard troops to U.S.-Mexico border
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 00:00
By reinforcing the 340 Guard members already monitoring border crossings and analyzing intelligence, the initiative echoes 2006's Operation Jump Start, in which President George W. Bush devoted 6,000 guardsmen to a two-year commitment in support of the Bo
Mexico shaken by apparent abduction of powerful politician Fernandez
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 00:00
His disappearance has rattled the political and business class here, stoking fears that the war against powerful crime syndicates might be escalating to more dangerous heights
Colombian president's brother said to have lead death squads
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 00:00
Now a former police major, Juan Carlos Meneses, has alleged that Uribe's younger brother, Santiago Uribe, led a fearsome paramilitary group in the 1990s in this northern town that killed petty thieves, guerrilla sympathizers and suspected subversives.
U.S. applauds record extraditions from Mexico, but drug war violence continues
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 00:00
Extraditing high-ranking mobsters has sparked more ferocious turf battles both within the cartels and between rival organizations.
Timeline of Colombia's Modern Paramilitary Movement
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 00:00
1981: The first modern paramilitary group is formed by some of Colombia's top cocaine kingpins: Death to Kidnappers, created to execute kidnappers who had targeted the relatives of drug traffickers.
Q & A with Juan Carlos Meneses, retired major in Colombia's National Police
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 00:00
"What I knew about Álvaro is what Santiago told me. In that time, he said to me, 'Don't worry, lieutenant. My brother, Álvaro, knows all about this."
The fruits of weakness
Friday, May 21, 2010 - 00:00
In Latin America, they see not just U.S. passivity as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez organizes his anti-American "Bolivarian" coalition while deepening military and commercial ties with Iran and Russia. They saw active U.S. support in Honduras for a pr
Editorial: Obama administration should heed Mexico's call to crack down on guns
Friday, May 21, 2010 - 00:00
The Obama administration, which has been largely absent in the fight against the illegal gun trade, should have such backbone

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