Mexican President Enrique PeƱa Nieto’s pledge to reduce gangland violence is looking dubious as nearly 30 are killed in MichoacĆ”n fighting between narco-gunmen and federales.
Indefinite strikes brought Drummond’s coal mining operations to a halt in Colombia, putting further pressure on the country’s economy amid a growing wave of labor actions.
Mexican naval forces captured Miguel Angel TreviƱo Morales AKA “Z-40,” head of the notorious Zetas cartelābut his younger brother, “Z-42,” is poised to be the new boss.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced a new peace initiative in Burma’s conflicted Shan State aimed at facilitating poppy eradication.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) finds that Afghanistan continues to remain the world’s top opium cultivator, accounting for 75% of global illicit production.
Colombia's federation of cattle ranchers rejected the recent agrarian deal with the FARC, charging that it could lead to Venezuela-style expropriations of private property.
The archaeologists who unearthed a priceless pre-Inca burial chamber at Huarmey, Peru, were in a race with outlaw tomb-raiders who operate with impunity.
At least 10 people were killed when elite troops from the Special Operations Battalion (BOPE) of Brazil’s Military Police raided Nova Holanda favela in Rio de Janeiro.
Following two weeks of escalating protests by local campesinos, two were killed as National Police troops opened fire at OcaƱa in Colombia’s Norte de Santander department.
Guatemala’s President Otto PĆ©rez Molina inaugurated a new paramilitary force after an armed attack on a National Police post left eight officers dead and a commander abducted.
The union of lawyers in the West Bank announced that attorneys would suspend all their activities after anti-drug police in Bethlehem assaulted a lawyer.
Peru’s high court sentenced “Comrade Artemio,” one of the last “historic” leaders of the Shining Path guerilla movement, to life in prison on terrorism and drug trafficking charges.
