Colombia's government suspended peace talks with the FARC after the apparent capture of an army general by the guerillas for the first time in 50 years of insurgency.
The capture of "Marquitos," reigning crime lord of Colombia's La Guajira region, was followed by revelations of his deadly dealings with local paramilitaries and politicians.
Foreign investors remain "very excited with what's happening in Mexico" despite two notorious massacres so far this year. Mexicans see it differently: they continue to protest.
A raid by a new DEA-trained Honduran anti-narco force took down the country's reigning kingpin, José Inocente Valle, who possessed a cache of gold bars stamped "SINALOA."
Last month's assault on teachers' college students in Guerrero continues to kindle rage—and real fires—as Mexico's "narco-government" works on damage control.
When soldiers arrested a village elder at El Reposo, Colombia, in connection with a supposed cocaine lab, the troops found themselves seized by machete-wieilding peasants.
Attacks in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killed at least 30 troops, one day after militants fired an anti-tank missile at a military vehicle across the Israeli line.
The presidents of Colombia and Peru pledged to launch a joint operation to "cleanse" the Putumayo river valley of criminal gangs that control the remote jungle border zone.
Mexican authorities claimed another coup against the cartels with the arrest of Héctor Beltran Leyva, last remaining kingpin of the Beltran Leyva Organization.
The number of mass graves found in Guerrero keeps swelling, as does anger at political violence and corruption across Mexico's political spectrum.
Gregorio Santos, the populist president of Peru's Cajamarca region, was comfortably re-elected—despite being imprisoned as corruption charges are pending against him.
Student demonstrations swept Mexico to mark the anniversary of a 1968 massacre and to protest a new one, which left six dead and 43 missing.
