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El Salvador’s police chief, known for leading the country’s “war” on gangs, was killed in a helicopter crash along with several others, the army...
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Two rival gang leaders signed a truce to end armed conflict in Haiti’s largest shantytown, a community leader said Thursday. Haiti has long been...
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Samantha still does not know how she survived the slaughter of 46 fellow inmates in a brutal gang battle at Honduras’s only women’s prison...
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After years of chaos in Haiti, ultraviolent gangs have turned into their own power centers, posing a massive challenge as the international community pushes...
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Haiti is no stranger to armed groups, and the gangs ravaging the country are highly organized and control vast arsenals of military weapons, presiding...
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Before he opened a new sauna in eastern Lima, Eduardo started receiving extortion messages from a local gang. He ignored them. Then, one night,...
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Police in violence-plagued Ecuador arrested 68 people Sunday who had attempted to take over a hospital in the country’s southwest in the midst of...
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One night in September, teacher Thomas Cervin was woken by gunshots in his apartment building in Uppsala. His neighbour had just become the latest...
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On a normally quiet street, two men lie dead surrounded by blood and bullet casings, the latest victims of a series of executions that...
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With rifles, helmets, and bulletproof vests, some 4,000 soldiers and police on Wednesday encircled sections of two Salvadoran cities as part of a massive crackdown...