#Ecuador #labels #criminal #gangs #terrorists Ecuador on Thursday declared members of organized crime groups to be terrorists, a distinction that allows the military to...
#Record #cocaine #seizures #Antwerp #Belgium #battles #drug #gangs Belgian police seized a record haul of cocaine at the port of Antwerp last year, the...
#Salvadoran #troops #encircle #community #gangs #crackdown More than 1,000 soldiers surrounded a community in El Salvador’s capital on Saturday as part of President Nayib...
#Haiti #launching #cholera #vaccination #effort #hampered #crime #gangs Haiti on Sunday is launching a campaign to vaccinate more than 10 percent of its population...
#Honduras #suspends #rights #fight #gangs Honduran police on Tuesday moved en masse into poor urban areas to tackle criminal gangs “head on” after a...
#Salvador #soldiers #patrol #gangs #ruled Mauricio Gonzalez, an Evangelical pastor in a Salvadoran city overrun with violent street gangs, says life there used to...
#Salvadoran #troops #surround #major #city #crackdown #gangs Around 10,000 Salvadoran army troops and police officers surrounded the populous city of Soyapango, on the outskirts...
#Honduras #beefs #borders #crackdown #gangs Honduras on Sunday sent more than 600 military police officers to its borders with El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua...
#Ecuadoran #port #city #torn #gangs Entire neighborhoods run by gangs, prison bloodbaths and police overwhelmed by criminal firepower: Drug trafficking has transformed the Ecuadoran...
#Security #Council #agrees #sanctions #targeting #Haiti #gangs The UN Security Council on Friday agreed unanimously on a sanctions regime targeting the gangs terrorizing the...
#Rampaging #gangs #Haiti #rape #instill #fear Competing criminal gangs have turned to sexual assault as a way to terrorize Haitians and consolidate territorial control,...