“It is shocking how the debate over gun control in the wake of the Newtown massacre has avoided mentioning gun violence south of the border”: UNAM professor John M. Ackerman.
A prison in northern Mexico’s Durango has been siezed by the military after an armed uprising by inmates left nine guards and 14 prisoners dead.
HSBC, Europe’s largest bank, will pay the US government $1.92 billion in fines for its failure to prevent the laundering of drug money—but no one will face criminal charges.
As Mali’s prime minister is removed by the junta, Ansar Dine rebels are embraced in peace talks—while the MUJAO rebels are sanctioned by the UN as an al-Qaeda front.
Juventina Villa Mojica, an environmental activist in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero, was killed along with her 10-year-old son in a mountaintop attack by 30 gunmen.
A total of 19 bodies were found in clandestine graves in northern Mexico’s Chihuahua state, after local police were tipped off by the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez.
Complaints about abuses by Mexican police and soldiers have risen dramatically over the past seven years, according to the president of the government’s own human rights office.
Mexican think-tanks say that state measures for cannabis legalization in the US will undercut cartel profits, and note that personal users bear the brunt of enforcement.
Brazilian police launched "Operation Saturation" to crush the Sao Paolo criminal network known as the First Capital Command (PCC), flooding the favelas with paramilitary troops.
The US Treasury Department sanctioned a senior Taliban official for his alleged role in the Afghan opium trade, saying the traffic is used to finance violence.
Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s Office confirmed that it was finally charging 14 federal police agents for an attack on a US embassy van more than two months earlier.
Complaints of torture and other abuse by the police and the military have tripled since 2008, as the government steps up its militarized “war on drugs.”
