“We had our own bakery in El Salvador, until gangs arrived, and we could no longer sell bread. We were threatened out of our country.” Raul*, 65, fled with his family from El Salvador to Guatemala The ...

Alexandre Apolinário, a leader in this Indigenous territory, said he should have known what they meant. He’d seen the arrival of the gang ... has remade South America’s underworld and ...

While the Norteños claim territory north of Bakersfield ... spread across the United States, Mexico, and Central America. The ...

However, the mission has failed to prevent gangs from taking new territories and committing several massacres as violence dramatically escalated in the last months of 2024, causing thousands more ...

"It took us several hours longer than it should as we had to reroute from the gang checkpoints along the way and there was gunfire", says one passenger, who didn't give his name and was clearly ...

(AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File) A rally in the courtyard is staged by the East Colfax Community Collective to address chronic problems in the apartment buildings occupied by people displaced from ...

Your life may depend on it. Competing gangs are carving up the Haitian capital, kidnapping, raping, and killing at will. They demarcate their territory in blood. Cross from one gang's turf to ...