gang violence

At least 10 people, including two law enforcement officers, have been killed in violence linked to criminal gangs in Ecuador, police said Tuesday, in what the country’s president described as “an internal armed conflict.” Eight people...

The UN reported Friday that hundreds of individuals were slain in lynchings by vigilante mobs among the more than 2,400 people who have died in Haiti since the beginning of 2023 as a result of severe...

According to officials, a fire that tore through a portion of a women’s prison in Honduras on Tuesday caused at least 41 deaths. The fire was started by violent altercations between rival gangs. According to police...

The international jazz festival in Port-au-Prince, which is usually held in late January, has been postponed indefinitely due to months of gang violence in the Haitian capital, according to event organizers. Milena Sandler, head of the...