Increased violence highlights how Costa Rica is feeling the tightening grip of cocaine trafficking. But is the nation on a ...

On the eve of President Daniel Noboa’s first year in office, the evidence suggests that human rights have suffered under the ...

Across Ecuador, gangs have unleashed a wave of violence and extortion, upending lives and spurring an unprecedented exodus.

Authorities in Spain seized 13 tonnes (13,000 kilograms) of cocaine in a cargo container apparently filled with bananas, in what they ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a ...

News of the violence comes as Ecuador struggles to deal with prison overcrowding and frequent violence between gangs. The Ecuadorian police on Tuesday said at least 62 people had been killed in ...

On Friday six other inmates escaped from Guayaquil's Litoral prison, the largest and most populated in Ecuador. Two of them have so far been recaptured. A prison guard was arrested on suspicion of ...

A Brooklyn man was criminally charged with staging a car crash on the Belt Parkway in Rosedale last month that was captured on the dashboard camera in the victim’s car and went viral on social media ...

We do evil': How rival gangs with 'Pablo Escobar complex' gave kill orders over the phone and spent thousands smuggling weapons into jail for Ecuador ... emergency in the prison system following ...

Prosecutor José Domingo Pérez after the hearing described the sentence as “historic” and said it shows Peruvians that “crimes and corruption are punished.” ...

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo on Monday was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison in a case involving ... Guatemala and Ecuador. In Peru, authorities accused Toledo and ...