The latest Amnesty International report on global use of the death penalty shows a decline last year—but China's massive statistics are kept secret and therefore not factored in.
Andres Manuel López Obrador, Mexico's left-populist presidential front-runner, has filed a complaint with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission against Trump's proposed wall.
Edgar Veytia, the get-tough attorney general of Mexico's Nayarit state, was ordered jailed by a US federal judge in Brooklyn, facing charges of trafficking cocaine, heroin and meth.
A Philippine lawmaker has filed impeachment proceedings against President Rodrigo Duterte over thousands of extra-judicial killings carried out in the name of his war on drugs.
Three guards were killed as riot police stormed a juvenile detention center outside Guatemala City, where members of the notorious Barrio 18 narco-gang had staged un uprising.
Enemies of Colombia's peace process are dealt propaganda assistance by the fact that as the long civil war has wound down, coca leaf production in the country has been soaring.
More than 250 human skulls were unearthed from a mass grave outside Mexico's port of Veracruz, where citizen volunteers search for the remains of lost loved ones.
A Colombian cartel operative who established Central America's remote and lawless Miskito Coast as a major cocaine transfer point was arrested by Nicaraguan authorities.
Hundreds of peasant coca-growers shut down a main highway through southern Colombia to oppose the government's renewed "forced eradication" campaign in the region.
Even as the FARC guerillas begin the disarmament process under Colombia's peace plan, the ongoing wave of deadly violence against social leaders remains unrelenting.
One of the Philippines' only lawmakers openly critical of President Rodrigo Duterte's blood-drenched "war on drugs" is herself facing "politically motivated" drug charges.
The Trump administration seriously turned up the heat on Venezuela, slapping sanctions on the country's vice president Tareck Zaidan El Aissami as a drug "kingpin."
