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Armed gang storms Ecuador TV station as state of ‘internal armed conflict’ declared
Gangsters unleashed wave of terror following move by President Daniel Noboa in response to gang leader’s prison escape ‘We should treat it as a war’:...
Haiti’s gang wars having ‘cataclysmic’ impact on access to food staples
About 22,000 people have been displaced amid murders, looting, kidnappings and widespread sexual violence, new UN report says Haiti’s brutal gang wars have spread from...
‘People are dying in the street’: Ecuador election overshadowed by violent crime
The country goes to the polls this weekend after a campaign marked by bloodshed and the assassination of a candidate Ecuadoreans will this weekend choose...
El Salvador clears way for mass trials as crackdown on gangs ramps up
Congress passes bill that could allow 900 people to be tried together if they are accused of being in the same criminal group Nayib Bukele’s...
Mexico: IEDs kill four police officers and two civilians in ‘brutal’ cartel ambush
Another 14 wounded after seven improvised devices set off in attack by organized crime group in Tlajomulco, Jalisco state Four police officers and two civilians...
UN expert calls for arms embargo on Haiti amid gang violence
William O’Neill says ‘survival of a nation’ is at stake and also calls for deployment of an international force A UN official has called for...
Gunmen kidnap US citizens who crossed into Mexico to buy medicine
Gunmen opened fire on vehicle in northern city of Matamoros, and FBI is offering $50,000 reward for return of victims Gunmen kidnapped four US citizens...
El Salvador moves suspected gang members to 40,000-capacity ‘megaprison’
Around 2,000 inmates transferred on Friday as part of president’s crime crackdown El Salvador’s government has moved thousands of suspected gang members to a newly...
Gang warfare traps thousands in Haiti slum as fuel crisis add to desperation
Calls for aid to be let into Port-au-Prince district after ‘battlefield’ violence leaves dozens dead and cuts supplies of food and water Haiti’s capital has...
