Gangs
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Prisons Rule Streets While Cells Command Violence Economy
From behind bars, gangs in Guatemala run extortion rackets like call centers, directing threats, payments, and killings while enjoying privileges…
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AMERICAS
Guatemala Wakes Up Under Emergency Rules as Gangs Test State Power
After prison riots spilled into street attacks, Guatemala entered a thirty-day emergency that limits protests and expands police powers. With…
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LIFE
Honduras Noose Neighborhood Youth Choose Life While Gangs Rewrite Borders
In San Pedro Sula, Honduras, a few young men tried to defend four blocks from MS-13 and the 18th Street…
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AMERICAS
Honduras Street Truce Dreams When Gangs, Police, and Fear Collide
In San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the small barrio of Casa Blanca struggled to keep MS-13 and 18th Street out using…
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AMERICAS
Brazil’s Bloody Mirror: The PCC, the CV, and a War the State Keeps Losing
After a Rio favela operation left between 121 and 132 alleged criminals dead, Brazil has been forced to stare into…
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AMERICAS
Haiti’s Hunger Crisis: Artibonite’s Fields Turn to Fear as Gangs Tighten Their Grip
In Haiti's fertile Artibonite Valley, once celebrated for its rice fields and proud farming traditions, armed gangs now dictate who…
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ANALYSIS
Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua: Prison Gang or Political Weapon?
For two years, the Venezuelan government has declared the Tren de Aragua dismantled. Yet across South America, and increasingly in…
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AMERICAS
U.S. and Panama Push for 5,500-Troop Gang Suppression Force in Haiti as Crisis Deepens
With gangs now controlling 90% of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. and Panama are urging the U.N. to approve a muscular international…
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AMERICAS
Haiti Families Risk Homecomings as Gangs Pull Back
In Port-au-Prince, hundreds of families are edging back into neighborhoods abandoned to gunfire after gang leader Jimmy "Barbecue" Chérizier ordered…
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ANALYSIS
Ecuador Confronts Crime, Debt, And Jobs As Noboa Seeks Stability
President Daniel Noboa begins a full term facing three problems that keep most Ecuadorians up at night: violent gangs, strained…
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