According to an indictment by Peru’s public prosecutor’s office, Álvarez extorted, threatened and ordered the assassination ...

Organized crime groups are mining or stealing gold in Latin America and using it to quietly fund operations around the world, ...

Sebastian Montalvo Gray / EPA Peru serves as a hotspot for sexual slavery, illegal organ trafficking and labour exploitation. In addition, it is also the second-largest producer of cocaine in the ...

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, who enchanted readers with his intellectual rigor and lyrical prose for five decades and ...

The Albanian mafia has expanded its presence in Ecuador in recent years, drawn by key trafficking routes through the country, and it now controls much of the cocaine flow from South America to Europe.

With gold prices at historical highs, South American cartels are now making more money off illegal mining than trafficking cocaine. Mr. Funk was the managing editor of Pleroma Media, and worked as a ...

In total, the Coast Guard Cutter James crew and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations intercepted ...

The Coast Guard seized $510 million worth of illegal narcotics aboard drug smuggling vessels, including a narco-sub with over ...

LIMA, April 13 (Reuters) - Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa ... clamp-down on a drug trade turbocharged by a surge in cocaine trafficking. Middle Eastcategory Israeli PM Netanyahu's party ...

The crew of U.S. Coast Guard cutter James offloaded more than 44,550 lbs. of cocaine and 3,880 lbs. of marijuana valued at ...