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Soldiers take position outside the maximum-security prison in Escuintla, Guatemala

World

Gang members in Guatemala kill seven police after prison crackdown: minister

Guatemala’s interior minister accused gangs of killing seven police on Sunday in retaliation for the government’s refusal to transfer gang leaders to a lower-security...

AFPJanuary 18, 2026

Jose Jeri Jeri has drawn comparisons to El Salvador's gang-busting President Nayib Bukele -- who is criticized by rights groups for rounding up innocents in his full-frontal war on crime even as he is praised by many at home for making life safer

World

Peru’s interim president embraces the spotlight in ‘war’ on crime

Like a veritable action hero, Peru’s interim president rolls up his sleeves to take part in nighttime raids on prisons and in the street,...

AFPNovember 14, 2025

Jair Bolsonaro is accused of attempting to hold power despite his 2022 electoral defeat

World

Brazil’s Bolsonaro leaves house arrest for court-approved medical exams

Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro left his home where he is under house arrest Saturday to undergo medical exams, weeks before the Supreme Court rules...

AFPAugust 16, 2025

This handout picture released on March 31, 2025, by El Salvador's Presidency press office shows alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua and from the Salvadoran gang MS-13 being subdued upon their arrival at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in the city of Tecoluca, El Salvador.

World

David vs Goliath: Inside the legal battle to help Trump’s deportees in El Salvador

A small group of overstretched and outmatched lawyers is fighting for the rights of men deported by the Trump administration and held in a...

AFPJuly 15, 2025

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab said gang member Gerso Guerrero 'will be judged relentlessly'

World

Spain extradites top Venezuelan gang member

Spain on Thursday extradited to Caracas a powerful member of the Tren de Aragua gang which has spread across Latin America and the United...

AFPJuly 11, 2024

Police stand guard outside the La Modelo prison in Bogotá, whose director was murdered by hitmen, on May 17, 2024

World

Colombia transfers inmates after Bogota prison chief killed

About 15 inmates were transferred from a major Colombian prison on Friday, hours after the facility’s director was gunned down on a street in...

AFPMay 17, 2024

Fed up with drug-related gang violence, the governor of Argentina's most violent province has released a flurry of photos in a warning to narcos, and has also announced the construction of a new maximum security prison

World

Argentina’s most violent city puts narcos on notice

It is an image that has become common in countries hit by gang violence like Ecuador and El Salvador: shirtless and subdued prisoners lined...

AFPMarch 8, 2024

Some 1,500 soldiers are now in charge of the Latacunga prison in Ecuador, where cells had been turned into luxury rooms for crime bosses -- one of them with a jacuzzi which has since been removed

World

With army in charge, no more jacuzzis and clubs in Ecuador jail

Orange-clad prisoners line up with military precision to exercise and sweep floors at an Ecuador prison where drug lords once enjoyed jacuzzis and nightclubs,...

AFPFebruary 23, 2024