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How Ecuador went from being Latin America's model of stability to a nation in crisis
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEcuador looks set to entrust its anti-gang fight to the military. Franklin Jacome/Agencia Press...
Tren de Aragua: Venezuelan gang raises concerns on El Paso, Juárez border
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA fast-spreading gang that originated in a Venezuelan prison has been detected in the El Paso-Juárez...
Rising crime rates are pushing Latin America’s political pendulum to the right | Opinion
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn ultra-conservative party’s landslide victory in Chile’s May 7 elections for a commission that...
Haiti’s Police, Outgunned and Outmanned, Struggle to Thwart Gangs
The Wall Street Journal· 4 weeks agoLATIN AMERICA NEWS Haiti’s National Police, the last visible semblance of a state in a country where...
Growing drug-gang violence in Ecuador raises question: Could other countries be next?
Miami Herald via AOL· 4 months agoAs Ecuadorians wage war against almost two dozen gangs that are brazenly turning their once peaceful...
Barbie mania sweeps Latin America, but sometimes takes on a macabre tone
Associated Press via AOL· 10 months agoLatin America is taking Barbie mania to an extreme, with everything from pink-colored tacos and...
New Haitian Transition Council Takes Office, but Long Road Awaits
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoLATIN AMERICA NEWS Haiti’s new transitional presidential council was sworn in Thursday, opening the...
Opinion: US should do more to help Latin American neighbors build better lives
Asheville Citizen-Times via Yahoo News· 1 month agoDuring one of my trips from Washington, D.C., back to my home country of El Salvador, I took a taxi...
As El Salvador's president tries to silence free press, journalist brothers expose his ties to...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJournalists in El Salvador who write about gangs can now be sent to prison. Two brothers defy the...
Opinion: Organized crime threatens Latin America's democracies and fuels migration. The U.S. can...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe release of Peru's former dictator, Alberto Fujimori, reflects emboldened criminal groups there...