Criminal gangs from central and south America are taking advantage of lax US immigration laws to set up in cities across the nation and steal from hardworking citizens, a sheriff has warned ...

In particular, the gangs have become known for their "chop-up" houses, where they use machetes to dismember alive anyone who gets on their wrong side, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.

In the hills above the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa, Cecilia* points towards a vacant house, teetering on an eroding slope. Like so many in the neighbourhood, it was not so much abandoned as emptied ...

Following gang truce, Colombia city becomes experiment in peace. In the city of Buenaventura, a ceasefire between two rival gangs is being held up as a model for government peace plans.

BOGOTA, Colombia – A Colombian rebel leader is warning that criminal gangs are attempting to take over coca-growing regions being abandoned by the guerrillas to expand cultivation of the plant ...

In Colombia’s rural regions, a surge of bloodshed including mass killings and assassinations is shaking a country that had hoped a peace pact with Marxist rebels would end a cycle of violence ...

Five years after the implementation of a peace deal with Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), the country is by no means free of armed gangs.

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Minnesota comedian Tou Ger Xiong had fallen in love with the expat lifestyle in the vibrant Colombian city of Medellín: stock trading by day, fine dining and dance clubs by ...

As street gangs prey on Hondurans, thousands of property owners are forced to leave their homes and land behind. A view over the rooftops of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa. In some neighbourhoods, ...

The capture in October of drug lord Dairo Antonio Úsuga was described by the Colombian government as "the most important blow to drug trafficking since the fall of Pablo Escobar". While no one ...

For Colombia's defence minister, the key to bringing down the violence lies in tackling the drugs trade. According to the United Nation's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Colombia remained the ...