Casting the military campaign as a literal war on drugs, perhaps making the idea of intervention more palpable to the country, particularly the isolationist supporters who helped return him to the ...

One morning in early May, armed policemen turned up at Elizabeth's modest home in rural El Salvador and arrested her son.

VENEZUELAN tyrant Nicolas Maduro is not merely complicit in organised crime — he leads it. From generals to judges, the very ...

He says he was 18 years old when he first joined a gang in Ecuador a decade ago. Now a senior commander with a wife and kids, the man almost casually acknowledges he’s contributing to the deadly drug ...

An aircraft-carrier strike group is on its way to join the Caribbean force. A dormant base in Puerto Rico has been reopened.

A fair number of California's 40 million or so residents are members of motorcycle gangs; here's why the state is so enticing ...

By betraying Venezuela in its hour of need, Latin America has virtually ensured the kind of U.S. intervention they detest.

FOR TWO decades Roosevelt Roads, a sprawling American naval base in Puerto Rico, stood abandoned. Now the roar of fighter jets and whirring of helicopters have returned to fill the humid air. Over the ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One of Haiti’s leaders on Thursday asked the world to help his troubled Caribbean country fight what he characterized as a war against relentless gang violence and ...

Under US President Donald Trump, the issues of organized crime and immigration have converged like never before. Since Trump took office, criminal organizations such as MS13 and Tren de Aragua have ...

The war in Ukraine is driving a wave of organised crime gang operations in rural parts of Britain, with stolen farm machinery being sent to eastern Europe for “lucrative rewards”, a police officer has ...