San Salvador (AFP) - Jose was 13 when he entered the violent, murky underworld of the "maras," the gangs that have stained Central America's streets in blood. Like the tens of thousands of young ...

President Richard Nixon’s advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan once termed “benign neglect.” As it happened, however, during the 1980s and 1990s, the United States planted seeds in Central America that ...

Central Americas "northern triangle" -- consisting of its most crime-ridden nations -- waged a coordinated crackdown this week on two major gangs infamous for extortion, murder and violence: Mara ...

Undocumented immigrants who joined gangs while in the U.S. took American gang culture back to their home countries when they were deported, where it mixed with local gangs, creating a violent mash-up ...

SAINT-MARC, Haiti (AP) — Heavily armed gangs attacked Haiti’s central region over the weekend, killing men, women and children as they set fire to homes and forced survivors to flee into the darkness.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (UNHCR) – As a police officer in El Salvador, Carolina* worked in a unit protecting kidnap victims and murder witnesses, so they could help bring the perpetrators to justice. Then ...

SAINT-MARC, Haiti -- Heavily armed gangs attacked Haiti's central region over the weekend, killing men, women and children as they set fire to homes and forced survivors to flee into the darkness.