Crackdowns may suppress some forms of gang activity without dismantling their economic structures.
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Study suggests long-practiced strategy of taking out the heads of drug cartels may be missing underlying predictors of crime.
Many autocrats rig elections to stay in power. Nicaragua’s longtime president has gone one step further.
A historian explores how religious congregations, activists and city officials have supported undocumented immigrants in Philadelphia over the past 40 years.
For decades, the US seriously pursued the idea of ‘peaceful nuclear explosions.’
New research on Venezuelan migrants being forced back south from the U.S.-Mexico border raises key questions about safety and security for these migrants.
US lawmakers who opposed Guatemala’s democratically elected leaders alleged communist subterfuge. They didn’t mention the United Fruit Company’s complaints before the 1954 coup.
In the US, political consensus portrays the fentanyl crisis as a border problem but military action is unlikely to solve the issue.
US college leaders would do well to reflect on the courage of their counterparts in 1980s El Salvador who opposed injustice despite grave personal risk.
El Salvador has the highest prison population rate in the world. The US administration intends to increase the number of people behind bars there.
Incoming US president has repeatedly stated that Beijing is ‘operating’ the crucial waterway – an untruth, but one that gets at Washington’s fears of Beijing’s influence in the region.
Known locally as “la Reina del Sur”, Soraya’s story shows how gender issues permeate the criminal activities of gangs and drug traffickers.
Recent wildfires in Belize shows how we must work together to revitalize Indigenous knowledge systems and plant the seeds of collaborative climate action.
Jennifer, now 41 years old, was the first female gang leader in Honduras, a country devastated by gang wars. Fifteen years after going straight, she tells her story.
Central America’s forests are critically important habitat for many forest birds, including endangered species. Narco-traffickers are cutting down trees, leaving birds with nowhere to go.
New research documents how drones were used to track the temperatures of the Bay Islands anole lizard on the Honduran island of Utila.
Structures aligned with solar events served various purposes: science, farming, religion and even politics.
Aid would be much better spent if donors listened to the people they are trying to help.
New research challenges the conventional wisdom that those who enjoy some form of employment and strong support networks are more inclined to attach themselves to a set geography.
Mexico is seeing a spate of public lynchings that show no sign of abating.
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