Human Rights Watch called on Mexico to ensure an "impartial and effective" investigation into the killing of 22 civilians by soldiers in a raid on a supposed kidnapping gang.
Brazilian authorities reached a deal with inmates after a deadly prison uprising at Cascavel in Paraná state—one of many facilities where control of wards has been left to gangs.
Reports of torture soared after Mexico's government began its militarized "war on drugs," but the tradition of de facto impunity for torturers appears not to have changed.
Colombia's top brass held their first meeting with FARC leaders at peace talks in Havana—as Panamanian authorities claimed interception of a massive FARC cocaine shipment.
Border Guard patrols along Saudi Arabia's rugged mountain frontier with Yemen report mounting interceptions of hashish, weapons and other contraband.
Gen.Hugo Carvajal, a top Venezuelan official wanted in the US on drug trafficking charges, was arrested in Aruba—but freed by the courts before he could be extradited.
Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Chapo Guzmán claimed victory after leading a hunger strike joined by hundreds of inmates at Mexico's top-security Altiplano prison.
Peru's National Police stepped up operations against "narco-senderistas"—surviving remnants of the Shining Path that control cocaine production in two remote pockets of jungle.
Mexican authorities unearthed five recently buried bodies from a clandestine grave in a rural pueblo of Sinaloa state—the latest in a long string of such gruesome finds.
Rare video footage of the "first contact" with an isolated indigenous band near the Brazil-Peru border has emerged—along with accounts of horrific violence against the group.
The US offered Central American child migrants compassion and deportation at a DC summit, while the presidents of Guatemala and Honduras lobbied for more military aid.
The US is trying everything from special deportation flights to pop songs to discourage immigration, but it refuses to change the policies behind the phenomenon.
